Have bulker owners been wishing they were tanker owners in the first half of 2020, as they watched that market surge?

If there was any doubt, the confirmation came in the last five minutes of Star Bulk Carriers’ first-quarter earnings call on Wednesday.

Was it more bizarre that Deutsche Bank analyst Amit Mehrotra asked Star Bulk – the world’s largest bulker owner – whether it was considering converting bulkers to tankers? Or rather, was it stranger that Star Bulk management confirmed that it actually had studied the...