Greek shipowners cannot do anything about it now, but they are still not happy with the way the IMO 2020 sulphur emissions cap is coming into play.

A trio of owners — Euroseas and EuroDry chief executive Aristides Pittas, Tsakos Energy Navigation chief executive Nikolas Tsakos and Diana Shipping chief strategy officer Ioannis Zafirakis — used Capital Link's New York forum Invest in Greece to lament that the regulation was still coming into effect on 1 January.