Shipping is certainly not lacking in data and figures these days but, surely, few would argue against SIW being pretty much standard reading across various shipping sectors.

Fifty-two editions per year over 25 years would be 1,300 publications, and Clarkson Research has only missed mostly one, sometimes two, editions per year.

Issue number 1,257 last week proclaimed the anniversary and marked it with an “interesting, analytical comparison of some of the telling market figures from 1992 and 2017”.

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