Coronavirus is taking an extra toll on the smaller bulk segments in the depressed global market.

Some handysize owners have no choice but to send ships to Chinese ports hit by the disease, at the risk of substantial delays and quarantine afterwards.

But the low-rate environment has left them without any bargaining power to extract compensation from charterers.

Pacific Basin Shipping chief executive Mats Berglund says he is not worried about 14-day quarantines being imposed on his company's ships.