There are still some years to go before one of the world's largest shipping banks, HSH Nordbank, is ready to declare itself clear of the crisis in shipping, the bank's Global Head Shipping Domestic Clients, Christian Nieswandt, tells ShippingWatch, after the bank presented its financial report last week in which the amount of loan loss provisions is more than doubled, at 224 million euros. That figure was 111 million euros in the first half of 2012, and the result is primarily caused by the financial crisis in shipping: