When restless New York City hedge fund manager Robert Fairchild watches the Baltic Dry Cargo Index plunge 97 registering an alltime high and a 25year low within the span of just six months he decides to buy a ship Immediately fantasizing about naming a vessel after his wife carrying a string of worry beads and being able to introduce himself as a ampquotshipownerampquot at his upcoming college reunion Fairchild immediately embarks on an odyssey into the most exclusive glamorous and high stakes business in the world From pirates off the coast of Somalia and on Wall Street to Greek and Norwegian shipping magnates the education of Robert Fairchild is an expensive one In the end he loses his hedge fund but he gains a life as a Shipping Man Part fastpaced thriller part ship finance text book The Shipping Man is required reading for anyone with an interest in capital formation for shipping
