Finally, we all have some hope. News that an experimental Covid-19 vaccine is more than 90% effective has offered a real chance the world can return to some sort of normality in the next year — something that just a week ago appeared a very distant prospect.

Coming just a day after Joe Biden was confirmed as the US president-elect, it conjures up the opportunity that 2021 could be a year where the world's economy moves on from recent trauma and shipping markets regain some stability.