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The amount of money spent on ships – both newbuilds and secondhand – could be the largest recorded since the global financial crisis of 2008. Total spending on newbuild and secondhand tonnage combined stood at an estimated $147bn as of last Friday according to data from Clarkson Research Services. By comparison, just $74bn was spent in 2020, the first year of the pandemic.