Contrary 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...
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The 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...
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A 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...
CarVal 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...
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Watch 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...
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Every 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 […]
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John Michael Radziwill was on typically bullish form when speaking as a panellist at last week’s Maritime CEO Forum held at the Monaco Yacht Club. Watch below as the GoodBulk boss outlines why he’s confident about dry bulk prospects for 2020. Radziwill cited scrubber delays, which he predicted...
Cautious optimism about prospects for next year was tinged with regulatory anxiety during a lively dry bulk panel moderated by Mandarin Shipping CEO Tim Huxley at Tuesday’s Maritime CEO Forum held at the Monaco Yacht Club. The panel featured Cesare d’Amico, CEO of d’Amico Società di Navigazione,...
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Banks offering ship finance might be at their lowest levels this century, but shipowners have been warned they will likely decline further. Speaking during the ship finance session at Tuesday’s Maritime CEO Forum at the Monaco Yacht Club, Dagfinn Lunde, a Splash columnist and founder of...
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The Maritime CEO Forum made its European debut yesterday in the swish surroundings of the Monaco Yacht Club with 100 top shipowners gathered to debate key issues facing shipping. Regulators faced plenty of criticism throughout much of the event. During the tanker panel, moderated by the CEO of...