Bahri has been extremely active in the sale-and-purchase market this year, spending about $1.6bn on 13 VLCCs, a multipurpose heavylift ship, an ultramax bulker and now the IMC MR2 pair.

Singapore owner Hafnia is said to have sold a 13-year-old product tanker for only slightly less than it paid for the ship in 2013. Brokers quoted a price of $31m for the 50,000-dwt Hafnia ...

DB Schenker is of course intermodal in its coverage, using all modes of transport: ocean, air, land and rail. It’s difficult to say just how well the heavylift air side of the business is going ...