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23 September 2026

The charts that explain shipping’s extraordinary decade

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Source reporting: Splash247

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The charts that explain shipping’s extraordinary decade

Shipping has spent the 2020s lurching from one earnings boom to another, with successive crises repeatedly rescuing markets that conventional supply-demand analysis suggested should be weakening. Two new charts capture how today’s supercycle came to be, and which sectors face a likely downturn. Braemar’s decade-long earnings chart reads increasingly like a geopolitical timeline. Covid propelled …

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