Comment / OceanX: Liner profits up, rates down, with the world still turning – and burning

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Labor Day weekend in the US, spring day in South Africa and a rather sweaty start to a hot autumn in Europe. 

It remains a strange world these days – a sunk sailing boat with a few billionaires gets more global attention than the Sunion tanker burning in the Red Sea, which is not only threatening to cause an environmental disaster, but also highlights a crisis now into its eighth month, and which continues to threaten crews’ livelihoods, creates ...