The best yard stick, in our view, measuring management performance is the
financial return generate over time. And the most direct financial return for
shareholders is the dividend pay-out relative to a company's market value.
Liners have been swimming in cash on extraordinary earnings since 2021.
Reasonably, they also distributed dividend generously. Between 2021 and July
2022 end, a total of $38bn* of dividend paid while another $14bn have been
committed to be paid in 2022 by the 16 shipping