They seem to have faded away, those storylines that made up shipping’s main themes prior to the past month in which the world changed.
The coronavirus pandemic has become the one and only story, in shipping and in the broader world.
Exhaust gas scrubbers? US government trade sanctions?
All so very 2019.
And so too the momentum that was building around environmental and social governance (ESG) themes, carbon emissions and the development of the Poseidon Principles by the industry’s top lenders.
