Big shipbroking houses have been busy lately, shaping their business in ways that may define it for years to come.
With fat chequebooks, boosted by bumper profits from wildly gyrating markets, big houses have been widening their footprint in size and in scope.
These moves seem to be presaging an age of the giant broking house — behemoths with their fingers in every pie of the broking market in every corner of the world.
