Shipbuilding orders can hardly get more symbolic.
Amid the deepest coronavirus gloom and just one day after US pharma giant Pfizer unveiled an effective Covid-19 vaccine last November, Atlas Maritime moved swiftly to sign its first tanker newbuilding order in more than a decade.
"The announcement of the vaccine reinforced our conviction that the market will eventually turn and the world economy will start growing again," chief executive Leon Patitsas told TradeWinds in an interview at his Athens headquarters.
