Germany’s Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM), with a fleet of over 670 vessels under management, will enter the next year with a new chief executive. Ian Beveridge is handing over the position to the company’s chief financial officer, Sebastian von Hardenberg, who joined the Schulte Group in...
https://splash247.com/sebastian-von-hardenberg-to-take-over-at-bernhard-schulte-shipmanagement/
Marcel Liedts, a well-known name in shipmanagement circles, has passed away. As one of the key architects of Anglo-Eastern, alongside Peter Cremers and Richard Wong, Liedts served the Hong Kong-based shipmanagement giant for more than 30 years. He joined Anglo-Eastern in the mid-1980s and played an...
https://splash247.com/shipmanagement-veteran-marcel-liedts-dies/
Manish Singh from Aboutships provides readers with a review of maritime tech and services consolidation. The year 2024 has proven to be an eventful year for mergers and acquisitions in maritime services and technology. The deal log is too long to include here so the following examples are not...
The Schulte Group, Huayang Maritime Center, and Haikou Xinhaina Port and Shipping Technology Co have formed a joint venture on Hainan Island in the far south of China. Called BSM-HMC Maritime Services, the aim of the new joint venture is to build a strong local network to cultivate a new generation...
https://splash247.com/schulte-forms-chinese-crew-joint-venture/
Singapore has a new shipmanager. Ocean Network Express (ONE) and Seaspan have formed ONESEA Solutions to manage owned and chartered-in ONE ships. Raman Handa, a long-term Seaspan shipmanager, has been appointed the CEO of ONESEA. He commented today, “ONESEA marks the evolution of the partnership...
https://splash247.com/one-and-seaspan-debut-shipmanagement-venture-in-singapore/
Germany’s top liner Hapag-Lloyd has bought out shipmanager Hamburger Lloyd. The two Hamburg-based companies know each other well, with the manager looking after 29 of Hapag-Lloyd’s ships. Moreover, Hamburger Lloyd, founded in 2007, was a shipowner through to 2021, selling its last boxships to...
Cyprus-based Intership Navigation and Interorient Shipmanagement have merged their shipmanagement activities into InterMaritime Shipmanagement. The newly formed company, which will include Intership’s sister company Donnelly Tanker Management, will manage a fleet of over 170 vessels including...
https://splash247.com/intership-navigation-and-interorient-shipmanagement-join-forces/
Torvald Klaveness has announced the sale of Klaveness Ship Management to OSM Thome, one of the chief consolidators in the shipmanagement sector. Subsidiaries of Klaveness Combination Carriers have, in parallel, agreed to enter into new shipmanagement agreements for its fleet with Klaveness Ship...
https://splash247.com/osm-thome-buys-klaveness-ship-management/
The mystery surrounding one of shipmanagement’s great succession sagas has come to a close today with Fleet Management announcing a very well-known name to take over the reins from founder, Kishore Rajvanshy. Captain Rajalingam Subramaniam, the former president and group CEO of Malaysian flagship...
https://splash247.com/former-misc-ceo-takes-over-from-kishore-rajvanshy-at-fleet-management/
A consortium led by European investment fund manager STAR Capital and Belgian holding company Ackermans & van Haaren (AvH) has completed the acquisition of one of the world’s largest shipmanagers V. Group. The company was bought from Advent International, a private equity firm that purchased the...
https://splash247.com/european-consortium-wraps-up-acquisition-of-v-group/