December 9th, 20190The year 2019 has been a landmark one for Kishore Rajvanshy, the veteran managing director of Hong Kong’s Fleet Management. The company he has been at the helm of since its establishment turned 25 and its fleet swelled to around 500 ships, while for Rajvanshy himself there was also another personal milestone, his 70th birthday. Such...
December 4th, 20191Ships sent for scrap cannot then resurface trading again, a landmark court case has ruled. The Kenneth Koo-led Tai Chong Cheang (TCC) Group took Anil Sharma’s GMS, the world’s largest cash buyer of ships for recycling, to court after one of its capes it had sold for demolition only was found to be trading via GMS’s shipowning...
November 29th, 20193Last week’s HR session at the Maritime CEO Forum confounded many who fear where the next generation might come from to fill the gap in shipping’s workforce. Watch below as two well known names in local Hong Kong shipping circles - Bjørn Højgaard, CEO, Anglo-Eastern and PB Subbiah, HR director at Pacific Basin - discuss how to go...
November 28th, 20197Captain Pradeep Chawla, managing director of QHSE and training at Anglo-Eastern Ship Management, discusses the characteristics and preferences of the millennials and how an organisation should adapt in order to motivate and retain this latest generation to join the workforce. “OK-Boomer” If you had to google this, you are...
November 27th, 20199It’s vital to build in sensitivities to baseline tanker forecasts, William Fairclough, the managing director of Wah Kwong Maritime Transport Holdings, told delegates attending last week’s Maritime CEO Forum at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Hong Kong. Watch as one of the smartest brains in Hong Kong shipowning analyses why...
November 27th, 20190Ports America, the largest marine terminal operator and stevedore in North America, has tapped a well known name in Hong Kong port circles as its next president. Peter Levesque will step down as CEO of Modern Terminals, Hong Kong’s oldest terminal operator, and return home to the US after 25 years in Asia, to take the Ports America...
November 26th, 20196Last week’s dry bulk session during the Maritime CEO Forum in Hong Kong covered plenty of topics. Moderated by Mandarin Shipping’s Tim Huxley, the panel of dry bulk shipowners were quizzed on finance, IMO 2020, the merits of being public or private and the markets during a busy 60 minutes on stage at the Foreign Correspondents’...
November 22nd, 201912The traditional start to any Maritime CEO Forum around the world is to get an analyst in the hot seat for a quick fire 30-minute Q&A to set the markets scene for later panels. In Hong Kong this week, organisers kicked proceedings up a notch by inviting the legendary shipping investor, Paul Over, on stage to give delegates attending...
November 22nd, 20190Seaspan Corporation has agreed to acquire power generation company APR Energy Limited in an all-stock transaction valued at $750m. The acquisition will see Seaspan reorganise its business, with the creation of a new parent holding company called Atlas Corp. APR Energy is a global leasing business that owns and operates a fleet of...
November 22nd, 20190Anglo-Eastern chief executive officer Bjorn Hojgaard has been appointed chairman of the Hong Kong Shipowners Association (HKSOA). Hojgaard steps into the position to replace Oak’s Jack Hsu after serving two years as the association’s deputy chairman. He is the first non-shipowner to chair the association since Anglo-Eastern’s...
