Shipbroker of the Year, 2000

Shipbrokers take a lot of crap in the ship finance industry. They are openly criticized for giving away information for free, surviving on a steady diet of gossip and being unjustly enriched for doing nothing but gabbing on the telephone. Remember the shipping industry’s first reaction to the internet- that shipbrokers would be a thing of the past.? To these criticisms we say Bah Humbug!

Shipbrokers are deal-makers par excellence. These warriors go out onto the battlefields of shipping without the armor of a balance sheet or a fleet of ships to protect them, wielding only their relationships and their ability to identify value and create transactions.

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