Investors should get a taste for dry cargo stocks today to avoid missing out on some easy money to be made on the recovering market, Evercore ISI says.

The call from analyst Jon Chappell came as he dialed up his dry cargo rate expectations despite China potentially providing a short-term speed bump on the road to recovery.

In his latest bulker market update, Chappell says the dry bulk space is fundamentally improving with fleet growth forecast at near 20-year lows in 2018 at a time the demand outlook is set fair

One near-term fly in the ointment is China’s move for environmental inspections between November and...