Dagfinn Lunde
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Just what is green finance?
There sure are a heck of a lot of conferences these days focused on so-called green finance. The term has…
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Regulatory purgatory is heaven for rates
Well, what a wonderful position shipowners find themselves thanks to regulatory purgatory. The waiting for confirmation of the next stage…
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The year ahead in ship finance
As is customary at this time of the year the editor asks me for my take on key themes in…
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Banks will shun shipping post-Covid
For all the talk that shipping will escape 2020 as one of very few industries to have had an improved…
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Why I’m holding onto my gold
When I finished my time as a full-time banker at the end of 2013, I put pretty much everything I…
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Unprecedented uncertainty sparks new ship finance conundrum
I’ve been in this wonderful shipping business for more decades than most and I can state categorically that I’ve never…
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China’s rise to the top
Across Marintec China in Shanghai today the latest issue of Maritime CEO magazine launches. Dagfinn Lunde reacts to news that…
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Beyond 2020
The editor told me the world is my oyster, I have a free rein to discuss what I like in…
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Nor-Shipping ought to celebrate finance achievements
I’m more involved in this year’s Nor-Shipping than normal, helping Jannis Kostoulas get his first Oslo Mare Forum up and…
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How the global economy will shape shipping this year
The editor gave me a free rein this issue. “The choice of topic is totally up to you,” he said.…
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2019 predictions and beyond
As is customary at this time of the year the editor tells me to stick my neck on the line…
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Shipping’s greatest loser since Lehman Brothers went under
No shipowning nation in the world has been worse hit in the 10 years since the global financial crisis than…
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Money for the masses
So here we are at Posidonia once again and my, oh my how the mood of owners descending on Athens…
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Themes that will dominate ship finance for the next 12 months
There’s been some pretty big wake-up calls for traditional ship finance players in recent months with a raft of tech…
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China’s long game
China’s maritime dominance is about to become all encompassing. National strategic long-term plans mapped out in the 1990s are now…
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Digital tsunami threatens to wipe many out
I am afraid to tell you that I think too many shipowners and ship financiers have little or no understanding…
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The finance case for Oslo
There are endless polls on which city ranks highest as an international maritime hub with invariably Singapore ranking top. Even…
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German banks thaw out
Like spring, the snow is beginning to melt at German banks – the thaw is finally here. In the year…
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Trump in a different light
There has been so much knee jerk, doom and gloom drudgery written in the days following the election of Donald…
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Burnt German banks will not be back in strength in international ship finance
It is SMM time, with the shipping world descending on Hamburg for the huge event, which for me means it’s…
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