If Covid-19 and the crew-change crisis have been the most pressing challenges for ship managers, then decarbonisation is arguably the greater, longer-term issue they will have to grapple with.

Anglo-Eastern envisages decarbonisation as being part of a growing trend towards strategic partnerships between managers and owners. It has already been involved in the design of an ammonia-fuelled newcastlemax that could hit the water in the next three or four years.