The period following the Labor Day holiday in the US has often been associated with investors leaving their beach retreats and getting serious about trading stocks again, including shipping equities.
In better times for the market, it was even a period when initial public offerings might start to emerge, though for shipping that seems a distant memory.
A victory these days would be just getting investors to notice the sector, which has been marked by widespread year-to-date losses and trading levels well below net asset values (NAVs).
