Shipping bankers get bullish: 'It's not a head fake. This is real'

Was this a panel of investment bankers or a running of the bulls?

A little of both broke out on Tuesday during the second day of the annual Marine Money Week conference as the finance men declared capital markets "wide open" to shipowners, at long last.

Leading the charge was Jefferies shipping banker Doug Mavrinac, whose busy 2021 has included work on International Seaways pending acquisition of Diamond S Shipping, Israeli liner company Zim's New York initial public offering and Taylor Maritime's dry bulk IPO in London.