Our #shippingopinion campaign via the social media site proved popular and fun and @tradewinds_andy and the WebTV crew were keen to get involved by engaging some of the industry’s biggest names.

Shipowners who have filed for bankruptcy are failures?

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@KristinHolth, the new boss at DNB’s shipping division said: “It’s not a winner who goes bankrupt.”

Alex Rodopoulos, representative of @platoumarkets_Greece, said: “To become bankrupt at the end means you don’t have the means to support your business and ultimately you end up as a failure.”

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