The period following the US Labor Day holiday traditionally signifies the return from summer beach holidays to the classroom and the office, the days growing shorter, and the leaves starting to fall.
In shipping’s public equity markets, it has meant something else: the investors are back and paying attention, the bankers are back and pitching deals.
And if shipowners are to have one of those “windows” for successful initial public offerings (IPOs), it could come between now and the winter holiday season.
