An extremely busy week of earnings for major US-listed shipowners appears to have helped stocks rise across the board.

And even as reporting cools down a bit in the days ahead, US investment bank Jefferies is looking at the continuing Colonial Pipeline outage in the US as a possible boon to shares of product tanker tonnage.

The 31 shipping stocks under coverage of investment bank Jefferies posted one-week gains of an average of 6.7%