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 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 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 21st, 20194Contrary to many recent reports carried by Splash, shipping is not struggling to attract the next generation into the industry, but more needs to be done to retain talent, asserted the HR panel at the Maritime CEO Forum in Hong Kong this week. “For me, I don’t think there is a big problem. There’s a lot of people who are dying...
November 20th, 20193The days of asset play in dry bulk shipping are increasingly over, according to a senior panel of shipowners speaking at this week’s Maritime CEO Forum held at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Hong Kong. The session, moderated by Mandarin Shipping’s Tim Huxley, covered a huge range of topics from IMO 2020, shipyard prices,...
November 19th, 20192A huge swathe of the first generation of double hulled tanker fleet are coming up to their scrapping age in the next couple of years, and yet owners are reluctant to order over the uncertain regulatory climate, delegates attending the Maritime CEO Forum in Hong Kong were told yesterday. The annual by-invite-only event took place at...
November 1st, 20190CarVal Investors is one of the companies to have changed the face of ship finance over the past decade. Founded in 1987 by Cargill, CarVal Investors is focused on distressed and credit-intensive assets and market inefficiencies. Today, CarVal Investors has $10bn in assets under management in corporate securities, loan portfolios,...
October 31st, 20192Watch below as Svein Moxnes Harfield, co-CEO of VLCC giant DHT Holdings, discusses why the VLCC sector is poised for a strong period of growth. Speaking at the Maritime CEO Forum held at the Monaco Yacht Club last week, Harfield was joined on stage by V.Group’s Graham Westgarth, Emanuele Lauro, the CEO of Scorpio Group and M Sea...
October 30th, 20192Every Maritime CEO Forum always kicks off with a quick fire 30-minute Q&A where a top shipping analyst is put on the hot spot to give his or her view on the markets and to set the scene for the later panels featuring the world’s top shipowners. In Monaco last week, it was the turn of Arrow Shipbroking’s head of research, Burak...
