Shipbroking
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Maritime CEO
Sovereign Shipping: Shipbroking in the digital era
Singapore-based shipbroking firm Sovereign Shipping is going through its own digital transformation, developing an S&P app. Wong Hong Lee, managing…
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Europe
Affinity: Focus on the start of a new cycle
Affinity Shipping is growing its financial services offerings, conscious of the “new breed of investors” coming into the industry, the…
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Europe
London event discusses the disruptive future of shipbroking
The third edition of Smart Solutions event in London this week commenced with a heated discussion among IT providers and…
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Europe
Clarkson shareholders hit out at Andi Case’s massive bonus payout
Shareholders in shipbroker Clarkson are not happy at the massive payouts to top management. The FTSE 250 company suffered an…
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Maritime CEO
SDSD: Shipbroking heads to the cloud
Ten days ago the maritime software development company SDSD launched V-Chartering – a new cloud chartering platform for wet and…
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Contributions
Shipbroking’s role in the 21st century
Panos Patsadas, managing director at Target Maritime Transport, argues his profession is just as relevant and important in the digital…
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Dry Cargo
BHP Billiton bypasses brokers with new online auction platform
Shipbrokers around the world are waking up to the shock news that one of the world’s most important shippers, miner…
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Europe
Braemar: Mid-sized brokers face uncertain future
Mid-sized shipbroking firms face an uncertain future, argues the head of Braemar Shipping Services in a wide-ranging interview today. James…
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Dry Cargo
Shipbrokers follow traders to new instant messaging platform
Just over two weeks remain until major oil traders will cease using Yahoo Instant Messenger for good. Shipbrokers are following them to…
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Europe
Jekov replaces retiring Carlisle at SSY
UK broker Simpson Spence Young (SSY) has promoted the youthful Bulgarian Stanko Jekov to managing director of its dry cargo…
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Contributions
Shipbroking as a stepping-stone to shipowning? Delusional
Panos Patsadas, MD at Target Maritime Transport, reckons too many young men and women are becoming brokers for the wrong…
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Europe
Simpson Spence Young announces new chairman
British shipbroker Simpson Spence Young (SSY) has announced that its long-term chairman John Welham will relinquish the role in January…
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Greater China
Simon de Courcy Hughes to retire
One of the best-known names in Asian shipbroking is set to retire at the end of March. Simon de Courcy…
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Europe
Arctic Securities and John Fredriksen form new shipbroking outfit
Arctic Securities and the John Fredriksen family’s investment company, Geveran Trading Co, are together establishing a new shipbroking company, Arctic…
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Asia
Four SSY brokers quit in Singapore to form own firm
Four S&P shipbrokers have quit Simpson Spence & Young in Singapore to form their own broking outfit called Avalon Shipbrokers.…
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Greater China
Wallem closes HK shipbroking division
Hong Kong’s Wallem Group has closed its shipbroking department at its headquarters. “The dry cargo markets remain challenging and the…
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Europe
Jeffrey Evans becomes next Lord Mayor of London
Clarkson shipbroker Jeffrey Evans has been named as the new Lord Mayor of London. Evans, who became Lord Mountevans last…
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Dry Cargo
Braemar: Dry bulk’s five-year wait
London: It’ll take another five years to get the dry bulk equilibrium back on an even keel, warns one of…
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Europe
Simpson Spence Young: Slew of tanker newbuilds next year will end bullrun
London: A slew of tanker newbuilds set to hit the world’s oceans next year should put a cap on the…
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Finance and Insurance
Maritime businesses should watch out for fraud, warns ITIC
London: Maritime businesses should be vigilant for fraudulent emails altering the bank details of recipients for payment transactions, the International Transport…
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