The news for shipping counters really just gets worse and worse, doesn't it? In the public focus is China's slowdown where the biggest hit industry has to be that of commodities. After all, when the biggest importer of goods starts to consume less, the first hit will be raw materials and food that has been fueling its meteoric rise in the last decade. And with Europe in deadlock, and US import/export imbalance swaying without much consensus, it is no wonder that the next most correlated industry - shipping- will also bear the brunt of this economic tide. ...