US slowdown won’t hurt, say owners

SHIPOWNERS are generally convinced the dry bulk industry is unlikely to be severely hit by any slowdown in the US economy during 2008, writes Michelle Wiese Bockmann.

Like the mining giants, whose coal and iron ore cargoes form the mainstay of their business, dry bulk shippers expected growth in Asia and the Middle East, rather than events in the ...

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