This time last year, TradeWinds' reporters around the world fanned out to ask dozens of shipping industry stakeholders what they expected for the decade ahead.

They spoke of digitalisation, carbon reduction, consolidation and growing demand for transport.

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But these shipping luminaries could not have predicted that the new decade's first year would be beset by a pandemic that would close offices, bring passenger shipping to a standstill, clobber demand for many commodities and kill more than 1.5m