Last year brought the unheard of and the unexpected.

In sport, 5,000-to-1 shot Leicester City won English football’s Premier League, while baseball’s Chicago Cubs seized their first World Series trophy in 108 years.

In government, a real-estate mogul and TV reality-show star won the US presidency over a flock of professional politicians, months after the UK voted for Brexit.

Shipping is starting 2017 with its own entry — and no, it’s not this week’s news that a much-rumoured merger-and-acquisition by John Fredriksen is actually being attempted.

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