Brokers seek to make predictions in an unpredictable market

Volatility, information overflow and digitalisation are changing the face of the shipbroking business.

That was the view of a panel of experts at this week's TradeWinds Shipowners Forum in Athens, who discussed the prospects and challenges of the shipbroking business.

"I used to be opinionated and more than 50% [of the time] I was also correct," Oino Shipbrokers managing director Vasilis Kakoulidis said on his predictions for the state of the dry cargo chartering market.