SHIP FINANCIER VIEWS ONCHOPPY MARKETS – A SURVEY

When Publisher Emeritus Jim Lawrence gets nervous about the financial markets, he’s very interested in hearing the opinions of others. Jim’s view is that market behavior is ultimately driven by sentiment, so he per – forms informal surveys (at the deli, around the water cooler, etc.) to determine what that sentiment is.

In that same spirit of folk economics, we thought it would be interesting to survey some of the leading shipowners, financiers and investors from around the planet to see what they think about the instability in the financial markets and what its impact on ship finance will be. The answers to our five questions are, of course, anonymous, but what you will see is that the people who own and finance ships are optimistic and see better days in the not so distant future. We provide summary statistics below followed by some the actual answers. Many thanks to our participants for their overwhelming response.

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