Genco Shipping & Trading and its publicly traded subsidiary Baltic Trading will each report earnings on Thursday, Nov. 5, along with their respective conference calls. This will be a week after Navios Maritime Partners reports its earnings, hopefully giving us some insight into the future state of the dry-shipping environment. Let's prepare for the future by reviewing the past earnings reports and conference calls. Pay attention to Navios Maritime Partners and what its management has to say. In its last call, it referred to the industry as "brightening." For the first time in four years, Navios VP of Business Development George Achniotis predicted that industry demand would exceed supply. Take note of whether the company is still on board with that opinion, and what other comments its management has about the future. The better the outlook or continued positive outlook, the better it is for Genco.