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Crossroads for dry bulk shipping: recovery or disaster?
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“If you look at the basic fundamentals of dry bulk — the end of the rains in Brazil, the talk of stimulus in China — I think you’re probably looking at a better risk-reward [balance] than the futures are telling you,” Kartsonas said. “If you get better volumes out of Brazil, I wouldn’t be surprised to see the BDI [Baltic Dry Index] double.”
Then why are April and second-quarter Capesize FFA contracts so low? “I think most of the people who trade [FFAs] are in the Western world, in London and Geneva and places like that,” Kartsonas answered. “Everybody’s affected by what’s happening [with coronavirus], sitting at home and trying to make sense of the world. They probably don’t have the most optimistic macro perspective right now. Also, it may be derisking: People may be being told, ‘Listen, forget about trading freight for now.’”
“You’re looking at the lowest prices for freight in many years. Can they go lower? Of course. But the higher risk is that rates actually snap back on seasonality, China and better weather in Brazil. I think the broader trade that people are entering into here is: long China, short the Western world.”