Excellence and affinity beget promise in the maritime markets.

President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of Elaine Chao for secretary of transportation, Rex Tillerson for secretary of state and Wilbur Ross for secretary of commerce, suggests a more buoyant maritime industry, both globally and in the United States, as well as more active maritime finance markets.

On 9 November, the morning after the US presidential election, I walked from our office up Fifth Avenue, past Trump Tower, to the Plaza Hotel for the Marine Money Conference, where I was a panellist.

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