Annual reports from some of the biggest shipping companies were lined up this past week, with most of the attention went to the Maersk Group, where the low oil price and miserable container rates make life more bitter than usual.

Maersk downgrades 2016 forecast significantly

Maersk hit with deficit in final months of 2015

Maersk Line facing miserable 2016

Here is an overview of the Maersk Group annual report 2015

Maersk Oil in 2.6 billion dollar impairment

Maersk CEO Smedegaard's optimism curbed by the oil price

Maersk Line CEO: Loss of first place will be short-lived

Maersk Drilling CEO: We'll takes things as they come

DSV CFO Jens Lund

Things are looking far more positive for DSV.

Air & Sea boosts DSV's result for 2015 

DSV CFO: Seafreight will be a fierce bargaining market in 2016

DSV CFO hopes for next acquisition in 2018

DFDS CEO Niels Smedegaard

And DFDS also has reason to be pleased.

DFDS exits 2015 with record operating profit

DFDS CEO: English Channel could be new growth driver 

A Maersk vessel off the coast of West Africa was attacked by pirates in an incident that triggered several reactions.

Nigerian army frees hijacked Maersk container vessel 

Shipowners: Severe piracy threat off West Africa's coast

Former rebels thought to be behind hijacking of Maersk vessel

Jens Ismar, CEO, Western Bulk

The dry bulk market triggered a different response at carrier Western Bulk, which was split up and is now no longer named Western Bulk.

Bulk Invest casts doubt on own survival

This is the newly transformed Western Bulk setup

And key figures in the oil sector had several interesting things to say.

Vitol CEO: Oil price will remain low for the next 10 years

Russian oil boss declares shale oil adventure finished

Is the oil industry shutting down in the North Sea?