A month after declaring the worst tanker market “since the Black Death” in Oslo, was that a chastened Tor Olav Troim headlining the opening panel of the annual Marine Money forum in New York?

Troim.
OK, chastened may be an exaggeration. But Troim did confide to a packed hotel ballroom that he was called into question by “my boss” after his comments sent the Nor-Shipping delegates into collective depression and tanker stocks into a downturn.