Trust in any environment is a fragile commodity, which takes time to be earned but only an instant to be destroyed.
In shipping’s often opaque markets, winning the trust of financial investors has always been a battle, but right now it appears to being eroded almost as fast as dry bulk rates.
At the eye of the storm is confidence, or rather lack of it, in listed shipping companies’ dividends, and the commitment of managements to maintain them.
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