Express Holding is the latest financial player to enter the shipping industry in Italy, promising to operate in the market with a different approach. “We don’t act as the traditional NPL managers are used to do. We are an innovative shipping platform as we look at financial exposures capable of...
https://splash247.com/express-holding-italys-newest-shipping-platform/
Carsten Mortensen is back, hunting product tanker opportunities with a new fund. The former CEO of both BW and Norden has teamed with well-known shipping private equity professional Freddie Lee to create Dee4 Capital Partners, which started off in the summer by closing a $41m capital raising...
https://splash247.com/dee4-capital-short-term-market-dislocations-coupled-with-long-term-value/
The latest issue of Maritime CEO magazine launches today just in time for the upcoming Cyprus maritime week. As ever there’s the views of shipowners from across the globe, top markets commentary as well as deep dives into pertinent topics affecting the shipping industry today. A special feature in...
In episode 120 we meet with Patrik Dahlgren, Senior Vice President, Global Marine Operations, Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd. a former Master Mariner who left Sweden for more than 20 years and who now has a dream job for many, he is responsible for operations in the global cruise company Royal Caribbean Cruises and six of its subsidiaries.
We talk a lot about the SDG 5 in this episode and the gender diversity programme that Patrik helped introduce into RCC and why he thinks it’s so important. He...
Meet Birgitte Ringstad Vartdal, CEO of Golden Ocean Management AS in Oslo. Birgitte is one of the #WomeninShipping that is more often interviewed by the trade press than others, that comes with the task of being the CEO of a listed company.
In spite of that, Birgitte doesn’t see herself as a role model even though she understands that others do that. We talk about her background and what she thinks about the future and she gives good advice to young people who just started in the maritime...
https://shippingpodcast.com/birgitte-ringstad-vartdal-ceo-golden-ocean-management-as/
In episode 117 we meet Michael Kjellberg, Owner of Swedish Orient Line, SOL and he shares glimpses from a long and successful career and all about Gothenburg Chartering, Imperial Shipping, Swedish Orient Line and now Wallenius SOL, the “new kid on the block”, the newly formed Swedish ship owning company, servicing the forest industry.
Michael started his shipping career by going to sea on CARMEN, a car carrier, some 50 years ago, but found out that he was more interested in shipbroking and...
https://shippingpodcast.com/michael-kjellberg-chairman-and-owner-of-swedish-orient-line-ab-sol/
It has taken more than six years of restructuring but finally the Ravenna-based Gestioni Armatoriali is now free of debts and ready to take new investment opportunities, both in the dry and liquid markets. Nicola Coccia, chairman of the company and former head of the Italian shipowners association...
https://splash247.com/gestioni-armatoriali-lack-of-finance-in-italy-for-restructured-companies/
Proving once again what a brilliant asset player he is, Norwegian tycoon Arne Fredly revealed in late May he’s closing in on a deal to offload a pair of VLCC resales, pocketing a stunning $25m profit in the process. Fredly set up Oslo-listed Hunter Group as a pure-play VLCC company early last year,...
Şadan Kaptanoğlu stars on the cover of the latest issue of Maritime CEO magazine, launched today just in time for next week’s big Nor-Shipping event in Oslo. The magazine has a strong Nor-Shipping flavour to it with plenty of Norwegian owner interviews and Oslo finance under the microscope....
https://splash247.com/hi-kaptanoglu-new-bimco-boss-stars-on-the-cover-of-maritime-ceo-magazine/
Rizhao-based Landbridge Group, a diversified multinational group specialising in port infrastructure, logistics, oil and gas, shipping and petrochemical industries, is gearing up to grab the opportunities from China’s grand Belt and Road Initiative to further expand its business with a competitive...
https://splash247.com/landbridge-group-building-on-belt-and-road/