It was Genco Shipping & Trading chief executive John Wobensmith who found the perfect prop to symbolise the live return of the shipping finance community in New York on Thursday.
This was a "thank you" note he had jokingly prepared for Atlas Corp chief financial officer Graham Talbot on behalf of the entire dry bulk industry.
The joke: Atlas shipowning arm Seaspan Corp had amassed an orderbook of 70 newbuilding containerships, thereby jamming up Asian shipyards and preventing bulker owners from killing their own boom market through oversupply.
