tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1247111105995091882024-03-21T19:11:54.473-07:00eShipownwersTrust.com BLOGEst. in 1997 by Mr.Anastasios Maraslis, a Greek businessman whose name is mentioned several times by Lloyd's List, Trade Winds and other shipping gazettes for his achievements/ideas in Shipping and Marine Insurance Industry. S.T.I.C is known in Global Shipping community for carrying dry bulk/break bulk cargoes port to port with managed or third party ownership, Handymax, Supramax or Cape size, vessels. Cargoes carried i.e Iron Ore, Magnesium Ore,Coal,Urea,Sulphur,Cement,Scrap, Agriprods, etcSHIPOWNERS TRUST INT/NAL CORP.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11472158413082444844noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-124711110599509188.post-83688704310489648362015-05-27T05:09:00.003-07:002015-05-27T05:09:39.576-07:00'IS GREEK SHIPPING UNDER THREAT?'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong> "IS GREEK SHIPPING UNDER THREAT?"</strong><br /><em>by Mr. Anastasios Maraslis</em><br /><em> S.T.I.C’s CEO/President.</em></div>
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Greeks dominate the seas since ancient times and Shipping has been the oldest form of occupation of the Greeks until today. The Greek ownership merchant fleet is the largest in tonnage capacity exceeding the 17% of the world’s total.<br />
Despite the past decades several economic recessions and shipping crises Greeks were always managing to come out of stronger and better off, with more ships than before. Their inherent talent to buy and sell timely, to manage their fleet economically during the recessed periods and the low freight, throat cutting competition, downturn shipping cycles – has been their distinctive advantage compared to other shipping nations.<br />
It’s been an International shipping standard to follow the Greeks in recessed periods and <em>“do as they do”,</em> until the decade of 2000.<br />
In the decade of 2000 shipping business and world trade boomed with China’s economy liberalization and it’s GDP growth, money poured in shipowners safes and bank accounts like never before.<br />
Shipowners experienced unprecedented euphoria in freight levels and vessels’ daily earnings. Banks – European Banks – were more than keen to lend any amount for new buildings or second hand vessels purchases.<br />
Greed for newly built, more and/or bigger size vessels had become a phenomenon which Greeks had never experienced ever before – to these exuberant levels – until then, access to easy money was only for the few old traditional shipping families and/or for those who were well qualified and/or willing to risk all or a significant % of their own private funds in the business.<br />
The new buildings ordering frenzy from 2003 until 2013 doubled the size of the world’s entire merchant fleet – <em>from 873 mil dwt to 1690 mil dwt according to statistics compiled by Clarksons</em> – <u>involving vast capital investment which was borrowed cheaply by the banks.</u><br />
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Throughout the 2003 to 2013 period the largest world’s fleet composition by shipping nationality was allocated to:<br />
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<strong>AT THE 2000 DECADE’S <u>BEGINNING,</u> FLEETS OWNED BY LOCAL INVESTORS OPERATING IN THESE COUNTRIES. </strong><br />
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<strong>GREEKS LITERARY OWNED THE VESSELS, SINCE THEY WERE ALSO RISK TAKERS/INVESTORS IN THE ASSETS THEY MANAGED, AS WELL, OPERATING FROM THEIR HOMELAND! </strong><br />
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However during the booming “decade” starting from 2003 until 2008, there were changes in each country’ world fleet shares. <strong><u>Top contributor Greece’s share declined after 2003, from 20 percent down to 15 percent in 2014</u></strong>. China’s share rose solidly, doubling from 6 percent in 2003 to 12 percent in 2013! Overtaking thus Germany in the years 2013/’14 to become the third largest shipping country.<br />
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However the next day of the aftermath of May 2008, the freight levels and shipping market collapsed, the European Banks had been already facing major financial problems after the Lehman Brothers – including most – if not all – of the European Shipping Banks which had to sell their shipping loans portfolios cheaply to <strong>U.S.A Private Equity Funds</strong> and to major <strong>U.S.A Hedge Funds</strong> – which had discovered shipping sector as an alluring type of investment the previous good years – to survive. <strong><u>This had an impact on assets’ ownership shares composition. </u></strong>Now, the new owners of the vessels were the private or institutional investors in the U.S.A, that is the P.E Funds and the Hedge Funds who bought the banks’ portfolios and now owned the 75-80% of the vessels’ shares, if not more!<br />
In the meantime Greeks traditional triptych Investor/Shipowner/Ship Manager shares have been significantly devaluated due to the assets-vessels’ prices collapse.<br />
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Also the structure of the board of directors and the controlling interests has now changed. A new entity (P.E.F or H.F) has replaced the traditional shipping bank, taking over its role, but not its <em>modus operandi</em>. These funds are not particularly interested in the shipping business itself or in ships, they are mainly speculators. Speculators have not patience to wait for too long and usually jump from one investment opportunity to another. <br />
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Therefore it will be a major impact to Greek shipping interests if these Investment Funds decide to exit shipping selling short their shares in a catastrophic market, like this we all experiencing today, with vessels’ prices falling flat as a result.<br />
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However what seemingly could be a threat for the Greek triptych could be proven just another opportunity to come off even stronger, once again, if Greeks have maintained sufficient cash reserves, from the good years on the side <strong>(A).</strong> To purchase short the Private Funds’ shares, and <strong>(B).</strong> To endure the crisis, until recovery, maintaining thus their dominant position in the world’s shipping community.<br />
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Time is a valuable resource which is just and fair to all with no exceptions. Time will show.<br />
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Mr. Maraslis has 28 years experience in the Maritime Industry and particularly in the fields of Ship Management, Marine Insurance, Investment, Ship Finance, Maritime logistics and International Trading. Lloyd’s List, Trade Winds and other International Maritime Newspapers and Shipping Magazines have published articles about Mr. Maraslis entrepreneurship and achievements.He is the writer of various articles published in Nafteboriki, The Greek Maritime Newspaper, NAYS, ELNAVI, Greek Shipping Magazines and he is the Author of two published, sociology content, books.Mr. Maraslis the last 28 years has partaken into international co operations with major international Organisations in Shipping Industry, Energy, Insurance, and Financial Institutions and until today he is organizing, planning and leading to the future both companies he founded 23 and 17 years ago together with an experienced, knowledgable and committed team of people who share his vision and goals.Mr. Maraslis is married with three children and lives in Piraeus, Greece. </div>
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SHIPOWNERS TRUST INT/NAL CORP.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11472158413082444844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-124711110599509188.post-18096471534320326352014-06-24T04:39:00.001-07:002014-06-24T04:39:04.248-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And this is feasible just by assuming full responsibility and control of any condition he is in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">By defying his fears of failure and seizing to blame others, his life, his luck, his destiny, the market, his government, God, etc (in other words to seize looking for excuses for continuing to hold his present condition). This means ‘taking full responsibility’.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This way one frees himself from the old and current bonds and liberates himself, his mind, his decision power to create a better future based on full responsibility and a causative stand point of view.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">One of the major problems these days one has to deal with is Opex which is decisive for a company’s viability in correlation with profitability.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">High Opex affect seriously a company’s profitability, especially in a volatile highly antagonistic market, where low freight rates have tremendous impact on a company’s cash flow and profit margins and should be drastically lowered or bettered.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><u>It is a survival matter.</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Disregarding- ignoring the necessity doing something about it is an executive’s ‘out point’, it is unethical, it is an omission.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">‘Know how’ and ‘exact technology’ is what is usually missing and thus often decisions under duress, fail.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This is Shipowners Trust International Corp. <span style="background-color: white; color: #bf9000;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><strong>S.T.I.C</strong><span style="color: black;">)</span><span style="color: black;"><strong>'s</strong></span></span> role since <strong>1997.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">That is helping and providing an ‘exact technology’ and ‘know how’ to singleton owners up to large fleet owners/managers, Internationally, to better their present condition by risk analysis, risk management, continuous monitoring by statistics, accounting, undertaking with professionalism and responsibility - on outsourcing basis or consultancy basis - what needs to change and improve in the following sectors;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Please do not hessitate to contact us for discussing, in full confidentiallity, your thoughts and interests for betterment.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Mr. Anastasios Andreas Maraslis</span><br />
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SHIPOWNERS TRUST INT/NAL CORP.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11472158413082444844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-124711110599509188.post-10592410763528941302014-04-30T01:52:00.000-07:002014-04-30T01:52:00.984-07:00 ' A SHIPBROKER'S TRIBUTE'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">'Wednesday morning 8:30am Feb, 2012 and many offices are still closed.<br />White collar employees are ‘trapped’ in traffic on their way to catch up with their morning tasks with a bleary eye'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The above scene stands for many but not for all!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In shipping business we have to be all time alerts and work ‘strange’ unusual hours - often from 4 am in the morning -to search and to discover the suitable vessel or the firm cargo.<br />80-90 per cent of cargoes are transported via sea routes by ocean going vessels and this makes our business a real, tangible business.<br />Shipbroker's role is a catalyst in shipping cargoes around the globe and this is a unique call.<br />Too often, competition is fierce and the long hours of work is exhausting, especially when many shipbrokers are racing to get the same cargo -especially in a poor freight market -<br />In a flourishing market, there is great demand and appetite for more vessels/ tonnage capacity to cover plenty of cargoes available and anyone can and is fixing anything making good money -even the cowboys of the market -<br />Regrettably, but interestingly enough, Shipping has its peaks and its lows.<br />Nowadays, once again, we are experiencing a down spiral cycle, (similar to the ‘70’s, ‘80’s and ‘90’s).<br />This shipping crisis though is different from the previous decades. Is not only the vessels’ oversupply but we are experiencing unprecedented changes in the banking system. I m reffering to the Europe’s financial turmoil and the withdrawal and closure of many credit lines!<br />No wonder for this is a new shipping recession it is part of the excitement our business offers.<br />In difficult periods like this, challenge is what keeps our hearts pounding with passion and thirst for achievement and accomplishment.<br />For it is in this challenging times the shipbrokers -worldwide- who must prove their role significance with showing their focused<br />and inexhaustible hard work and intelligence by providing once again more than it is expected.<br />Vessels’ owners are very much worried for their vessel’s employment opportunities and the scarcity of options in their goal to keep the propellers running at all times.<br />Profits are getting squeezed, sometimes close to non existent and often the aim is becoming merely the survival, in certain trading areas and or cases.<br />Prompt paying credible charterers is owners’ a major concern also which a shipbroker must provide sufficient evidence and information for.<br />Strategic planning and repositioning of vessels is also a matter to contemplate seriously.<br />Those Shipbrokers who rely in their personal experience from their day in- day out hard work have better control over their business and do always consult well and accurately their clients.<br />Well experienced and dedicated hard working Shipbrokers are the only professionals a ship-owner, a Charterer or a Shipper can rely on in getting the right information for planning the future or the next fixture.<br />A reason why Shipbrokers should be reading a lot what is going on internationally.<br />They read financial papers and magazines, political papers, environmental/climate changes reports so they would at all times have a clear understanding on how to interlink together all important information and datums for comprehending how the shipping industry is or is going to be affected.<br />As I aforesaid Shipping business is tangible and a very real business. Ships are daily transporting millions of tons of cargoes from one country to another every day, and YOU, THE SHIPBROKER - have made it happen!<br />Professional shipbrokers are not wasting a minute of their day and work pretty intensive for many hours as it is an International business.<br />Disappointing and frustrating enough when dates change, or when a cargo is postponed.<br />A successful shipbroker inspires himself and never lets the market’s downturns spoil his moral.<br />No matter the level of expertise he or she has he(she) always has the beginners mind and treat clients with passion to win their business!<br />In every call he(she) is making he(she) is transpiring this passion and enthusiasm.<br />But most important of all is the code of ethics he(she) applies in his(her) daily routines!<br />Disciplined and ethical 'his word is his bond' endures and overcomes successfuly anything with 'clean hands'.<br />Since we all are emotional these days due to the unpleasant developments in the world economy and the soft market this article is dedicated -as a special tribute- to our special world wide colleagues, our special fellow and associated hard working shipbrokers,<br />who support us since S.T.I.C was established in 1997 until today.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Special thanks to all!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">S.T.I.C<br />Anastasios Maraslis<br />CEO/President.<br />+30 210 4529500(ext.,103,104)<br />+30 210 4529505(Fax)</span><a href="http://www.eshipownerstrust.com/"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">www.eshipownerstrust.com</span></a><br /><a href="mailto:chartering@eshipownerstrust.com"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">chartering@eshipownerstrust.com</span></a></div>
SHIPOWNERS TRUST INT/NAL CORP.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11472158413082444844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-124711110599509188.post-89898459213500249762014-03-07T06:21:00.000-08:002014-03-07T06:28:02.036-08:00 ’RISK TAKERS AND SHIPPING LOANS’.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Knowledge.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">This is why Fund
Managers, Financial Advisors, Wall Street Gurus are highly remunerated and their
annual hefty success bonuses exceed the wildest dreams of most ambitious and
well paid executives.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Bonuses flying at the
range of few hundred millions us dollars to one or two billion! Investors’ usual
critical questions are; <strong>Where</strong> <strong>should I invest</strong> and <strong>When?<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Fund Managers and
Financial Advisors usually have the knowledge and expertise to know the right
answers to these troubleshooting questions.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The last two years they
have focused in one of the most profitable but also risky (due to its
cyclicality) investment options, which is the Shipping
industry!<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Shipping has been the
talk of the day since 2012 as it is obviously a good investment opportunity, now
the freight market and vessels values remain at historical low
levels.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">This is why
Private-equity and hedge funds are accumulating shipping debt at the fastest
pace since they began buying the risky loans from banks in
2012.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">It can’t be unnoticed
that about us$ 5 billion in shipping loans has changed hands in the past year,
according to estimates by AMA Capital Partners LLC, a fund manager and adviser
in New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Investor demand is
driving prices as high as 90 cents on the dollar, from 70 to 80 cents a year
ago. Funds are betting ship prices that collapsed as much as 80 percent in five
years will rebound from historic lows.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Shipping is a tangible
and global business.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Investing in Shipping -
buying shares in Ship-Owning companies (SVP’s) - is a tax free investment (at
fund’s level) and despite the risks involved and asset values depreciation in a
bad freight market environment, where the demand for tonnage is low, the vessels
always retain part of their value, the scrap value, in case of a distress sale
in a catastrophic market or vessel’s age being too
old.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Investors in shipping
anticipate combining income returns on their investment. One is the income
deriving from the trading and vessels management and the other is from the sale
and purchase gains, when the assets are liquidated at appreciated prices, in a
good freight market, where the demand for tonnage is
brisk.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">To get a fairly good idea
about Shipping investment opportunities we should look at the price of a
Capesize - the largest type of dry bulk carrier -which rose 50 percent in the
past year to $44.5 million, that is 29 percent of the 2008 peak of $153.8
million.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">In view of high profit
opportunities new specialized Private-equity firms have been established, like
Starfleet Navigation Limited - teamed by highly experienced shipping and
investment professionals- which are willing to take ownership of the assets and
put it to work while they wait for prices to
appreciate.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Having said that it would
be an omission not to mention that in view of the optimism prevailing amongst
the funds that are buying shipping loans there few that are less familiar with
shipping, if not at all, they are newbies and the risks they take might be
proven an expensive lesson.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">" TO SET THE RECORDS STRAIGHT"<br /> by Mr. Anastasios Maraslis<br /> <span style="color: #7f6000;"><strong>S.T.I.C</strong></span>-President/Director.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I am sorry to state the obvious but, sometimes, it seems we forget the basics or we take for granted what should be always checked first;</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">-A fixture which never came through, since charts failed to lift the subjs, is not to be </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> considered a </span><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">fixture, at all!<br /> Therefore the hire/freight of such failed biz can't and shouldn't be a guidance to what </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> the freight market </span><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">levels are!<br />-(Since when a failed fixture can be a guidance for owners or brokers? Is an athlete's </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> f</span><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">ailed try to high jump </span><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">2.50 m a guide that men jump 2.50 m?).<br />-There are few, (happily), charterers who have no firm biz in their hands, (L/C is not </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> opened/sales contract </span><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">under negos), who indicate high rates to attract/secure the vessel </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> and they even start firm negos with owners but </span><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">failed to lift the subjs, left vessels in spot </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> position, (something we all experience in large scale recently), and </span><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">instigated the false r</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> ate as a guide!<br />- A Charter fixture is considered to have been realised ONLY when is CLEAN OF SUBJS and </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> when the FREIGHT </span><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">or at least the first HIRE is being PAID, cleared in owners bank a/c!<br />-Reported, fictitious hire or freight numbers, derriving from Freight Derivatives, 'paper' </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> market, or RECORD </span><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">FIXTURES - who knows how done -as source of info/guidance is not </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> pragmatic/true FOR US!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">-There are men who make high jumps over 2.40 meters (Javier Sotomayor /WR since </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> 1993) but this doesn't </span><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">reflect what the average athlete can do or the average ordinary </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> man!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Please ppose to us any firm business (L/C is in place) and preferrably, cargo at port ready for loading, and when quoting a vessel kindly check what is the physical market paying empirically and not what the 'paper' market is expecting to make or the reports/promote as a guidance.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Freight Rates are determined by the doctrine of supply and demand ONLY and not by feeding owners expectations with ideas based on speculation. To set ones records straight, more effort is required, in real time, in the physical market, instead parrot /quoting what is published/read. Owners and Chrts alike need useful advise/consultancy from WHAT ONE HAS PERSONALLY EXPERIENCED/TOUCHED- NOT READ!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Wishing successful fixtures to all!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sincerely yours</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><strong><em>Shipowners Trust International Corporation (S.T.I.C)</em></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><strong><br /></strong></span>Anastasios Maraslis</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">President/Director.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: #351c75;">Shipping & Trading</span></strong></span><br />
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SHIPOWNERS TRUST INT/NAL CORP.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11472158413082444844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-124711110599509188.post-45271993214536059992013-07-24T03:24:00.005-07:002013-07-24T03:28:11.229-07:00" SHIPPING- DRY BULK MARKET DYNAMICS NEXT 3/10 YEARS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> <strong> " SHIPPING- DRY BULK MARKET DYNAMICS NEXT 3/10 YEARS."</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em><span style="font-size: x-small;">'Randomity is making life interesting, though too much randomity brings confusion & despair'</span></em> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> by Mr. Anastasios Maraslis<br /> <strong><span style="color: #bf9000;">S.T.I.C</span></strong>-President/Director</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">-Looking into the future is a physical human compulsion. Man needs to make a future </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> prognosis.<br />-Future prognosis goes far back in ancient Greece history, around 550 BC when there was </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> the Oracle Pythia, at the Apollo Temple at Delphi ,which was famous for her enigmatic </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> prophesies.<br />-Peering into the future is a risky business and anyone who endeavours giving a prognosis </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> is doomed to failure as future is subject to changes, human intervention, force majure or </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> unforseeable events.<br />-However there are some dynamics which can guide our vision in aid to minimize risks and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> with confidence organize the future.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Although, almost all, recent reports published by official recognisable world organisations and institutions similarly, like the Oracle Pythia, issued their 'forecasts' for the next 20-30 years (something you will get right in 20-30 years), I will focus in the dynamics of the next 3-10 years, since for the next two years I don't see, personally (today 24th July 2013), any market changes, unless something extraordinary takes place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">We, here at <span style="color: #bf9000;"><strong>S.T.I.C</strong></span>, have vested multiple interests in Shipping Industry, since <strong>1997</strong>, and have an urgent compulsion to analyse the information available prior organising our strategies for the future.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sharing our thoughts and ideas is an open invitation for counter thinking, constructive criticism, betterment and change! Therefore do not hesitate to share your thoughts with us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The last decade, until today, a decisive protagonistic role, in the shipping dry bulk market, and world trade is played by the BRIIC'S countries. (Brazil, Russia,India, Indonesia, China).<br />Today, BRIIC'S countries are the driving force of global economy and for this reason only we will focus on their dynamics to their role playing the next decade (3-10 years actually) as they are and will maintain their protagonistic position in the freight market - particularly in dry bulk commodities transportation by sea- we are interested in.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />Their GROWTH SUSTAINABILITY is the key of our brief research and quick, but not hasty, peer into the future.<br />
<br />The BRIIC countries have proved, consistently year by year, an increasing productivity, increasing investments, increasing savings rates and DOMINANCE in contribution to the global GDP. Our reliable sources, from the WORLD BANK, indicate that the two thirds of the global investment growth over the last decade has originated in the BRIC countries.<br />However these dynamics have shown declining trends, although still high, and will remain high, although to a lower degree, compared to last decade. This assumption is based on the BRIIC's countries population growth, population which will get better education, will save more money and will invest more - WILL CONSUME MORE -<br />
<br />It is worth to mention that these countries were the least affected by the financial crisis of 2008 due to their minor exposure in the International Financial/Stock Exhange Markets (particularly in DERRIVATIVES AND JUNK BONDS).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">{Their slower pace of growth though was mainly attributed to their western world exports sudden decline.}</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Once again, according to the World Bank information reliable sources, the contribution of developing countries to global growth will rise from 73% around 2015 to 87% by 2030.<br />Therefore we may dare to assume that the world's investment and saving rates and yields on capital will stabilize within the next decade with key protagonists the developing countries.<br />Developing countries growth is 1,5-2 points below what it was during the pre crisis period, that is four years ago.<br />Despite the positive insights accrued from our above dynamics analysis it would have been a gross ommission to disregard the Euro Area crisis which already has impacted the developing countries economies to slower progress as above analysed. Unless Euro countries governments cut spending to reduce gargantuan deficits, lighten heavy taxation, households need to reduce debt levels and the banks need to unfreeze lending, we will not see the anticipated recovery and a positive % growth soon (western countries consumers have not enough for maintenance, mereover for spending or saving).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />What is necessary for euro economies recovery is a combination of all the above mentioned, however if NOTHING makes the banks lend money, people and companies borrow, we will be facing a deeper depression which in turn will further slow BRIIC's countries growth ratio and will prolongue the poor freight market which has more capacity in tonnage than the physical market can digest.<br />
<br />Hoping also that same mistakes of the past - in derrivatives investments/options/futures/junk bonds - will not be repeated in the following years risking a second tragety like Lehman brothers, and that Euro economies will stabilize<br />IN CONJUCTION WITH BRIIC'S COUNTRIES GROWTH SUSTAINABILITY is the key market dynamics for freight rates rebound slowly, as any recovery process.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I would be delighted to share and hear your comments and thoughts in our effort to understand the world tendencies and the future insights better.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-small;">SHIPOWNERS TRUST INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION<br /> <span style="color: #bf9000;"><strong>S.T.I.C</strong></span> Shipping & Trading<br />SHIP OPERATION/CHARTERING /S&P / TRADING.</span><br />
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SHIPOWNERS TRUST INT/NAL CORP.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11472158413082444844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-124711110599509188.post-86790877287206664572013-04-02T05:39:00.000-07:002013-04-02T05:44:08.540-07:00'THE ASIAN TIGERS TRIUMPH'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Today, the Shipping World is undergoing, once again, the downturn trend of a shipping cycle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Usually, In a shipping crisis the freight prevailing rate levels are far too low, for many ship owners, to pay their bank loans and their vessels’ daily running expenses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Historically, in every shipping crisis, the average shipping company is struggling to survive, by lowering its running expenses and cutting its elastic costs to the bear minimum.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Additionally, in a shipping crisis like this, there are not enough cargoes for the sheer number of vessels, which have been ‘flooding’ the market in the previous good shipping years - new built vessels’ deliveries are still taking place, until today -</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It is noteworthy that, the key region which is still ‘alive’ with dry bulk cargo movements, is the Asian region (PG-INDIA-SE ASIA and of course CHINA), the remaining part of the shipping world is sluggish, with very few DRY BULK commodities shipments, not even worth to mention.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Thus, prior we see an improvement in the freight rate levels, there is a need for tonnage capacity correction (many shipping professionals support the idea that the excess tonnage capacity should be laid up and older tonnage to take its toll for scrapping).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In such a critical period, we are experiencing these days, <span style="color: #bf9000;"><strong>S.T.I.C </strong></span>, with global recognition, for superior dry bulk chartering and ship management services is an ally recognized and chosen by many small - medium size owners (in the number of vessels) for enhancing their presence and access to a qualitative and larger, cargo market share.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #bf9000;"><strong>S.T.I.C </strong></span>has built an expertise and loyal clientele - the last 16 years- with direct access to more that 200 first class charterers and firm shipments, ranging from 22,000 mts up to 160,000 mts and a fleet of more than 60 modern dry bulk vessels, of similar size.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The list of services offered W/W include: Dry Bulk Chartering (exclusive or competitive), Ship Management, Ship Operation, Ship Finance and Hull & Machinery, P&I Insurance via <span style="color: #bf9000;"><strong>S.T.I.C</strong></span> group of companies; <span style="color: blue;">Marasco Marine Ltd</span> (</span><a href="http://www.marasco-marine.com/"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">www.marasco-marine.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">), S&P brokerage, Bunkering, Crew Manning, Demolition and Iron Ore Trading.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">We, here at <strong><span style="color: #bf9000;">S.T.I.C</span></strong> aspire to add value to <strong>YOUR</strong> company with responibility and professionalism.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Please contact us at; </span><a href="mailto:chartering@eshipownerstrust.com"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">chartering@eshipownerstrust.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> for;Chartering Dept.<br /> </span><a href="mailto:snp@eshipownerstrust.com"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">snp@eshipownerstrust.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> for; S& P/Demolition Dept.<br /> </span><a href="mailto:operations@eshipownerstrust.com"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">operations@eshipownerstrust.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> for; Ship Operation/Ship </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: #bf9000;">S</span></strong> <span style="color: black;"><strong>- </strong></span><strong>Seeks Transparency.</strong><span style="color: #bf9000;"><strong>T <span style="color: black;">-</span></strong></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><strong>Takes Responsibility. </strong><span style="color: #bf9000;"><strong>I</strong></span> <strong><span style="color: black;">-</span></strong> <strong>Inspires. </strong><strong><span style="color: #bf9000;">C </span><span style="color: black;">- </span></strong><strong>Communicates.</strong></span><br />
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SHIPOWNERS TRUST INT/NAL CORP.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11472158413082444844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-124711110599509188.post-28578250619578956782013-03-26T00:23:00.001-07:002013-03-26T00:45:12.532-07:00 'WHAT CONSTITUTES CARGO DELIVERY’.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> by Mr. Anastasios Maraslis<br /> <span style="color: #bf9000;"><strong>S.T.I.C</strong></span>-President/Director</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It should be common knowledge - regretfully it isn't for this reason I wrote this article - in shipping business and practice that the carrier’s responsibility, for safe custody of the goods, comes to an end /cease as soon as the goods are discharged from the ship, AND OR ARE DELIVERED TO THE CONSIGNEE! The Consignee, in turn, to take delivery of the goods must present the bill of lading.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The moment consignee presents the bill of lading, and the cargo is discharged, the carrier ceases to have responsibility to the cargo and ‘goods are so completely under the control of the consignee that he may do what he likes with them’ (British Shipowners v. Grimond (1876) 3 Rett.968,972).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In practice , upon the discharge of the goods from the ship they are frequently in the custody of agents or contractors rather than the shipowner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Therefore owners and ship managers should bear the above always in mind and make quick decisions to avoid lost fixtures while waiting the obvious answer..... from their P&I legal department!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sincerely yours,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: #bf9000;">S.T.I.C</span></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Anastasios Maraslis<br />President/Director.<br /><strong><span style="color: #be8e28; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Contact us at:</span></strong></span><br />
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Trading<br />OPERATION / DRY CARGO CHARTERING / S&P / TRADING</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: verdana; font-size: xx-small;">Phone: +30 210 4529500 - Fax: +30 210
4529505.<br />Mobiles: +30 6943 108283, +30 6932 201053, +30 6945 590744.
<br />E-mail: <a href="mailto:chartering@eshipownerstrust.com"><span style="color: navy;">chartering@eshipownerstrust.com</span></a> (Chartering
Dept.)<br />E-mail: <a href="mailto:operations@eshipownerstrust.com"><span style="color: navy;">operations@eshipownerstrust.com</span></a> (Operations / Post
Fixtures Depts.) <br />E-mail: <a href="mailto:dry@eshipownerstrust.com"><span style="color: navy;">dry@eshipownerstrust.com</span></a> (Trading/S&P
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SHIPOWNERS TRUST INT/NAL CORP.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11472158413082444844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-124711110599509188.post-76962995698059934822013-02-27T04:52:00.003-08:002013-02-27T05:03:16.910-08:00 "EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE" VS FFA'S"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE" VS FFA'S"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> (IDBMFI) INTERNATIONAL DRY BULK MUTUAL FREIGHT INDEX</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Under the prevailing adversities (tonnage over capacity, world trade and economy in crisis, instability and political upheaval) one has to observe more carefully, to think and base his DECISIONS EMPIRICALLY and NOT ON OPINIONS AND BIAS.<br />To succeed, one has to re adjust his ‘ideas’ in changes quickly, by constant updating, renewing, re thinking, ANALYTICALLY, prior a decision is made. The rules of the game have changed. <br />Taking the analytical process is, too often, time consuming but the result is worthwhile the effort, like anything which adds value to your company and your personal ‘assets’ or resources.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">There are no quick fixes to succeed, especially in adverse business environments, like the one we are experiencing today! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In good, prosperous freight markets it is easy almost for anyone to make easy money and incur profits. A bad decision is easily forgotten and any losses derived from it are set off by the next voyage’s profitable income returns.<br />Having said that, as an example, to compare with a highly competitive market, where one bad decision might result in great losses, weakening the company’s cash flow stability and survival.<br />To make the right decisions one has to be prepared to run the extra mile and get what is required through private research and empirical evidence; otherwise he is risking making bad decisions and being surpassed by his competitors and fail. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE is where we, here at S.T.I.C, base our work and decisions, ONLY.<br />EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE is what we provide to our loyal shipowners clientele.<br />EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE is what we seek to acquire and require in our researches and observations.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">S.T.I.C builds a reliable MUTUAL SOURCE OF EMPIRICAL INFORMATION. The (IDBMFI) INTERNATIONAL DRY BULK MUTUAL FREIGHT INDEX which is not based on bias or opinions but on empirical evidence (cp fixtures) harvested weekly, from the International spot freight market. S.T.I.C information data is not influenced by the paper market of Freight Forward Agreements (Derivatives market) or on expectations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">For more information and how to co participate send your messages at; </span><a href="mailto:consultancy@eshipownerstrust.com"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">consultancy@eshipownerstrust.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> and we will guide you accordingly.<br /><br /><span style="color: #bf9000;"><strong>S.T.I.C</strong></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Shipowners Trust International Corporation.<br />Tel; +30 210 4529500<br />Fax; +30 210 4529505</span><br />
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SHIPOWNERS TRUST INT/NAL CORP.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11472158413082444844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-124711110599509188.post-10853273734855096912012-12-18T00:18:00.002-08:002012-12-18T00:18:10.837-08:00'STIC'S ARTICLES PURPOSE'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<strong>'STIC'S ARTICLES PURPOSE’.</strong><br />
by <span style="color: #bf9000;"><strong>S.T.I.C</strong></span> - Promotion & Marketing Dept.<br />
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We would hereby like to thank you all for subscribing to our articles and your encouraging and kind messages.<br />In fact, the articles are distributed to all of our lists and have been welcomed and read by most of you, despite their length, which sometimes is rather long, depending the subject. In view of the sheer number of messages we all receive daily we will try to keep the articles<br />length short for your easier and quickest reading.<br />For the new readers we here by outline briefly the purpose of our articles which, most of the times, are written by the President and founder of our organisation; Mr. A. Maraslis who's experience in Shipping goes back to the early '80's and his articles have been pubished in many local<br />and international magazines and news papers.<br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><strong>STIC’S</strong></span> <strong>ARTICLES PURPOSE;</strong><br />
a) To bring forth market transparency.<br />b) To reveal and confine false or manipulating and mischievous information/data and their sources.<br />c) To fight ignorance and bias.<br />d) To re establish full trust amongst industry professionals, competing ethically - and unrestrained- <br />
serving the world trade and the global sea transports effectively and efficiently.<br />e) To provide useful and practical ideas and tested empirical information.<br />f) To Organize empirical data to a practical - market useful - impartial source of information.<br />
><strong><span style="color: #bf9000;">S </span></strong>- <strong>Seeks Transparency</strong>.<br />><span style="color: #bf9000;"><strong>T</strong></span> - <strong>Takes Responsibility.</strong><br />><span style="color: #bf9000;"><strong>I </strong></span> - <strong>Inspires.</strong><br />><strong><span style="color: #bf9000;">C</span></strong> - <strong>Communicates.</strong><br />
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Sincerely yours,<br />
<strong><span style="color: #bf9000;">S.T.I.C</span></strong><br />Promotion & Marketing Department.<br />
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SHIPOWNERS TRUST INT/NAL CORP.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11472158413082444844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-124711110599509188.post-49320593956936094562012-12-17T23:36:00.004-08:002012-12-17T23:55:38.109-08:00'CARGO IS THE VARIABLE'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong><span style="color: #bf9000;">'CARGO IS THE VARIABLE'</span></strong><br />
by Mr. Anastasios Maraslis<br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;"><strong>S.T.I.C /</strong></span>President/Director<br />
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We are all experiencing, quite often, business/fixtures faltering due to cargo readiness and chrts’ failure to lift the subjs.<br />
This is rather frustrating, for all, and not cost effective either, as a great deal of working hours have been spent, by all parties concerned, without producing the anticipated outcome, at the end of the day.<br />
In sea transportations service, especially these days, the only steady and reliable datum is the vessel, as she has a position, physically, and can be monitored, even via satellites. There is no doubt about a vessel’s physical position.<br />
A cargo, on the other hand, is a variable which is subject of questioning, if such cargo is ready at port to be loaded, or whether it is still subject of a sales contract negotiations, which, depending the incoterms, the exporters or importers are checking the transportation’s costs/freight in the market via their brokers. In which case, the cargo is not firm, yet, and thus it is possible the sales contract<br />
to fail, for various reasons. In the first case, cargo can be traced, via loading port agents and shippers. In the second case though cargo simply is nothing else but an idea, a business/trading deal under discussions and its anticipated to succeed or fail. Owners and brokers alike<br />
would rather to know, before they decide to enter into such ‘venture' -availing their time and efforts- if this cargo is a sold cargo or not, or, if sold, a corresponding letter of credit has been issued, by the buyer’s bank.<br />
We live in communications era, thus, any such information should and could be verified within few minutes or an hour, simply by asking the right questions to the right people, avoiding thus frustration, waste of time and money by identifying and securing the variable....the cargo!<br />
Thanking you kindly for your encouraging messages and co operation so far!<br />
Sincerely yours,<br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;"><strong>S.T.I.C</strong></span><br />
Anastasios Maraslis<br />
President/Director.<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">SHIPOWNERS TRUST INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;"><strong>S.T.I.C</strong></span><br />
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SHIPOWNERS TRUST INT/NAL CORP.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11472158413082444844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-124711110599509188.post-22957834432594623022012-11-01T07:45:00.001-07:002012-11-01T07:45:14.650-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span lang="EN"> <span style="color: blue;"><strong>‘ THE FREIGHT</strong> <strong>PHYSICAL MARKET</strong></span> <strong><span style="color: red;">VERSUS</span></strong> <span style="color: blue;"><strong>THE PAPER MARKET</strong> ’</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> <strong><em>By Anastasios Maraslis</em></strong></span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #bf9000;">S.T.I.C</span></strong> /President/Director</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Shipping business is cyclical, with periodic overcapacity, where the freight rates reflect the supply-demand balance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The understanding of Shipping business particularities make it necessary to work collaboratively to achieve success by transfering knowledge and 'tangible' experience on a wide variety of shipping 'areas' of common interests.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">One of which, is the current prevailing freight -existing- rates available for numerous shipping routes, type of cargoes, type of vessels and sizes!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Although the current freight <strong><span style="color: blue;">'PHYSICAL MARKET'</span></strong> is very low, within the next 8-10 years the emerging economies will contribute an outsized share of the world GDP growth. Overall the global economy is expected to expand at a 3.6 percent annual rate over the longer term, resulting in world GDP swelling to $90 trillion by 2020! That is 40 percent larger than what it is today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>Have you planned for these developments ahead and how?</em> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">One way to plan is through <span style="color: black;">STRATEGIC ALLIANCES</span> which is required now more than ever before and the creation a functional mode which will establish and promote <span style="color: blue;"><strong>THE FREIGHT MARKET TRANSPARENCY</strong> </span>which has to be our main concern before the <span style="color: blue;"><strong>'PAPER MARKET'</strong></span> overtakes in its entirety the <span style="color: black;">PHYSICAL FREIGHT MARKET</span> and drives it to complete chaos and ruins! In which case <span style="color: black;">SHIPBROKERS EXISTANCE</span> in the market will be at great risk, threatened to be REPLACED BY<span style="color: black;"> 'PAPER' TRADERS' and MEGA TRADING COMPANIES.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To remain indifferent in such a threat is not the solution and any good professional has to think it seriously and act now, before is too late.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The reluctance of banks to provide capital funds, the rise of shipping debt and the sharp fall of freight rates motivated stock - money market practitioners, stock , bond and CDO's traders to use the <strong><span style="color: blue;">DERIVATIVES</span></strong> financial instruments for taking advantage the openning/opportunity given in the <strong>ONLY LEFT HEALTHY INDUSTRY</strong>, creating a parallel 'PAPER MARKET' with the purpose to speculate and profiteering based on caused SENTIMENTS and controlling OPINIONS by spreading ambiguous and non clear information among us, using various sources, ways and means.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To make the right decisions one has to be prepared to run the extra mile and get what is required through private research and empirical evidence; otherwise he is risking failure, making wrong decisions based EFFORTLESSLY on OTHER PEOPLE OPINIONS OR BIAS.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>RELYING YOUR DECISIONS POWER ON OPINIONS OR ON REPORTS ONLY (MOST OF THEM BASE ITS INFORMATION ON THE PAPER MARKET EXPECTATIONS) IS NOT PRODUCTIVE AT ALL.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: blue;">-EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE</span></strong> is where we, here at S.T.I.C, base our work and decisions, ONLY.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: blue;">-EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM THE PHYSICAL FREIGHT MARKET</span></strong> is what we provide to our loyal clientele and close supporting associates.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: blue;">-EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE</span></strong> is what we seek in our research and observations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><strong>-YOUR EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE</strong></span> is invited to be shared with <strong><span style="color: blue;">OURS </span></strong>and <span style="color: blue;"><strong>OTHERS</strong></span> in an </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><strong> ASSOCIATION </strong></span>for complimenting and updating </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">the <strong><span style="color: blue;"><em>NEW, INDEPENDENT</em></span></strong> and <strong><em><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">RELIABLE </span></span></em></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><em><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;"> MUTUAL SOURCE OF EMPIRICAL INFORMATION - THE IDBFIA!</span></span></em></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em><strong><span style="color: blue;">-THE</span></strong></em> <span style="color: blue;"><strong><em>(IDBFIA) INTERNATIONAL DRY BULK FREIGHT INDEX ASSOCIATION</em></strong></span> is not based on bias or opinions but STRICTLY on <strong>EMPIRICAL </strong></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>EVIDENCE</strong> (cp fixts/fixture notes/recaps) harvested DAILY, from the International spot freight market, by associated brokers,owners and charterers .</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>-The IDBFIA is open ONLY to its ASSOCIATED MEMBERS, AS A MUTUAL POOL OF INFORMATION.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> A critical part of enhancing the future planning process of our clientele is improving their overall decision-making capabilities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Left unchecked, subconscious biases such as excessive optimism ('dictated' mainly by false unchecked data/info, or even influenced by so called 'authorities' which usually, if not always, undermine a manager’s routine or strategic decision-making capabilities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">-We, at S.T.I.C provide our exclusive or semi exclusive clientele with a decision making analysis and a perspective on - and a way to mitigate the</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> impact of - the biases that are often inherent in our clients’ decision - making processes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">-S.T.I.C’s information harvesting is resulted directly from the shipping PHYSICAL ‘battlefield’ through daily hard work and high standards technology</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> applied by our dedicated company’s executives in THE PHYSICAL FREIGHT MARKET by analysis and strategic planning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Please share your thoughts, ideas, empirical evidence with us to co grow the IDBFIA for YOUR ‘peace of mind’, ‘confidence of what are the prevailing rates at each time’, ‘control of your work’,‘work is more enjoyable’, ‘better budget control and profitability’, ‘save time/less hustle’, ‘being cause’ and CONTRIBUTE TO THE SHIPRBOKER'S PROFESSION SURVIVAL..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sincerely yours,</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>S.T.I.C</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Anastasios Maraslis</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">President/Director.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">P.S You may recirculate, forward or print.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>SHIPOWNERS TRUST INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION</strong></span><br />
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</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">SHIP OPERATION/CHARTERING /S&P / TRADING.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span> </span> <a href="http://www.eshipownerstrust.com/"><u><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span lang="EN">www.eshipownerstrust.com</span></span></span></u><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: blue;"></span></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">chartering@eshipownerstrust.com (Chartering Dept.)</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:Operations@eshipownerstrust.com">Operations@eshipownerstrust.com</a> (Operations Dept.)</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:Dry@eshipownerstrust.com">Dry@eshipownerstrust.com</a> (S&P/TRADING Dept.)</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:info@eshipownerstrust.com">info@eshipownerstrust.com</a> (General/Admin.Dept.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><a href="mailto:consultancy@eshipownerstrust.com%20(Consultancy">consultancy@eshipownerstrust.com (Consultancy</a> Services)</span></span></div>
SHIPOWNERS TRUST INT/NAL CORP.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11472158413082444844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-124711110599509188.post-28080489970918824152012-06-28T02:56:00.000-07:002012-06-28T02:56:05.679-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">‘Decisions - Your Ruin or Your Prosperity? - ’</span></h3>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> By Anastasios Maraslis</span></h3>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Running a shipping company is difficult, especially in times of crisis.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Shipping can be very profitable. However, the business is cyclical, with periodic overcapacity, where the freight rates competition is cutting throat.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Over the long term, many companies cover their cost of capital but hardly earn a profit.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our deep understanding of Shipping business, allows us to work collaboratively to achieve success and transfer knowledge on a wide variety of large, complex performance improvement initiatives.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the next 8-10 years emerging economies will contribute an outsized share of the world GDP growth.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Although we will continue to see economic turbulences, overall the global economy is expected to expand at a 3.6 percent annual rate over the longer term, resulting in world GDP swelling to $90 trillion by 2020. That is 40 percent larger than it is today.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have you planned for these developments ahead?</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Straregic alliances is required now more than ever before!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #bf9000;"><strong>S.T.I.C</strong></span> - <strong>COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Here, at <span style="color: #bf9000;"><strong>S.T.I.C</strong></span> we understand the unique environment of shipping industry </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and its cyclicality.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- <strong><span style="color: #bf9000;">S</span><span style="color: #bf9000;">.T.I.C</span></strong> is the optimum choice for clients seeking to achieve results, why we </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> enable this success of organizational transformation through collaboration</span><br />
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</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- by working side by side with our clients - sharing accountability, transferring </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> knowledge, ‘tangible’ information and helping transform the culture to</span><br />
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</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> embrace and sustain lasting change by diagnosing and eliminating weaknesses </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and non productive ‘working habits’.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-A critical part of enhancing the planning process of our clientele is improving </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> their overall decision-making capabilities. Left unchecked, subconscious biases </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> such as excessive optimism ('dictated' mainly by false unchecked data/info, or </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> even influenced by so called 'authorities' and self imposing ‘big names’ - ) </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> which usually, if not always, undermine a manager’s routine or strategic </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> decision-making capabilities.</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-We, at <span style="color: #bf9000;"><strong>S.T.I.C </strong></span>provide our exclusive or semi exclusive clientele with a decision </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> making analysis and a perspective on - and a way to mitigate the </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">impact of - </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> the biases that are often inherent in our clients’ decision - making processes.</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-<span style="color: #bf9000;"><strong>S.T.I.C</strong><span style="color: blue;">’s</span></span> information harvesting is resulted directly from the shipping ‘battlefield’ through daily hard work and high standards technology applied by our dedicated company’s executives in market analysis and strategic planning.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #bf9000;"><strong>S.T.I.C<span style="color: blue;">'s</span></strong></span> crew is sailing towards new horizons by making new alliances, adding value to its clientele and shaping the future TODAY!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sincerely yours,</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>S.T.I.C</strong></span><br />
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</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anastasios Maraslis</span><br />
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</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">President/Director.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SHIPOWNERS TRUST INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> S.T.I.C</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Shipping & Trading</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SHIP OPERATION/CHARTERING /S&P / TRADING.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">S.T.I.C BUILDING - 3, VOUDOURI STR.,- PIRAEUS 185 37 -GREECE.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">info@eshipownerstrust.com (General/Admin.Dept.)</span></span></div>SHIPOWNERS TRUST INT/NAL CORP.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11472158413082444844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-124711110599509188.post-72398902035367024842012-04-11T01:49:00.000-07:002012-04-11T01:49:50.227-07:00'CRISIS OR OPPORTUNITY?' - A QUESTION SHAPING YOUR FUTURE.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Dear friends,colleagues and associates ,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #bf9000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: #bf9000;">RE: </span>'CRISIS OR OPPORTUNITY?' -<span style="color: #bf9000;"> A QUESTION SHAPING YOUR FUTURE.</span></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">You are also, most possibly, experiencing these days the world wide economic depression, the oversupply of tonnage and the prevailing soft, even poor, freight/hire rates in the Dry Bulk markets and I truly understand you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This unfortunate, strenuous business environment is beyond your control and there are not many things someone could do to change the market’s downturn course, until <span style="color: blue;">‘the shipping cycle’</span> is completed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Although <span style="color: blue;">shipping crisis</span> is the common denominator which suppresses, almost all, Shipping companies survival, there are certain actions which when followed and implemented you can be differentiated and compete successfully, where others fail, until the freight market recovers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In <strong>1997</strong> (the year <span style="color: #bf9000;"><strong>S.T.I.C</strong></span> was established), a similar soft rates period was hitting the dry bulk cargo vessels, once again.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">That shipping crisis was faced by many with introversion, skepticism, despair even, but for others it was clearly an opportunity!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">You could also <span style="color: blue;">SHIFT YOUR VIEWPOINT TODAY</span> and focus in exploring the opportunities available or creating new ones!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">You could easily decide what could be an opportunity or how to take advantage of new ideas -by answering few questions- after that you could plan the course of action which when implemented your vessels will become more competitive in this changing business environment.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In periods of crisis it is not the ‘strongest’ or the ‘bigger’ who survives but the fittest, the one who lasts longer!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">If you are, also interested, in receiving our free of charge, easy to apply - Newsletters and Articles - information on <span style="color: blue;">‘ORGANIZE - BATTLE & WIN’</span>, <span style="color: blue;">'PRODUCE AT MINIMUM EXPENSE’</span>, with specific how to advices and technology, just avail few minutes of your time to help us understand in which category we should enlist your e mail address for sending you the right information for YOU.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">You see, there are certain factors which differentiate YOUR Company’s needs and goals from another’s:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Please advise <span style="color: blue;">YES /NO /SOMETIMES / MAYBE</span> as only acceptable replies. However if you feel that you wish to elaborate a question more and provide us more information, please feel free to do so!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">1. Do you feel that there are no satisfactory paying cargoes/business opportunities for </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> your vessels this period?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> <span style="color: blue;">YES / NO / SOMETIMES /MAYBE</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">2. Do you think that changing vessels’ trading region you could see a betterment in </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> vessels’ </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">income?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> <span style="color: blue;">YES / NO / SOMETIMES /MAYBE</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">3. Do you believe that having access to economies of scale is the only way to cut further </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> vessels’ operating expenses or increase earnings?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> <span style="color: blue;">YES / NO / SOMETIMES /MAYBE</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">4. Are you confident that you ‘see’ daily (have control) the whole freight market- </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> business </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">opportunities offered?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> <span style="color: blue;">YES / NO / SOMETIMES /MAYBE</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">5. Do you have reliable and trustworthy information of the daily fixtures for each region </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> and similar vessels to yours?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> <span style="color: blue;">YES / NO / SOMETIMES /MAYBE</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">6. Does your broker advise you of what the freight levels are from his personal daily </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> experience? (Not circulars, reports or press).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> <span style="color: blue;"> YES / NO / SOMETIMES /MAYBE</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">7. Has any of your vessels remained in a spot position more than seven days the last </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> three </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">months?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">YES / NO / SOMETIMES /MAYBE</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">8. Do you feel that you are so successful that you wouldn’t change a thing in your </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> planning </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">or organizing?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> <span style="color: blue;">YES / NO / SOMETIMES /MAYBE</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">9. Have you ever thought that there must be something else you should do but you don’t </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> know what?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> <span style="color: blue;">YES / NO / SOMETIMES /MAYBE</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Since 1997, we have successfully served and serve, numerous loyal clients, internationally, every day, in many ways!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Our success is attributed to our satisfied clientele and our unstoppable interest and continuous efforts for improving our services to our client’s changing needs and their requirements.</span><br />
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</div>SHIPOWNERS TRUST INT/NAL CORP.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11472158413082444844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-124711110599509188.post-12174737061904810532012-04-09T02:56:00.000-07:002012-04-09T02:56:03.152-07:00'REPORTS AND MARKET JOURNALS VS HANDS ON THE BUSINESS'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Dear friends,colleagues,associates and clients,</span><br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>'REPORTS AND MARKET JOURNALS VS HANDS ON THE BUSINESS</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong> '</strong>by Mr. Anastasios Maraslis</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> President/Director</span></div><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">We all know that the majority of CP fixtures is on PNC basis.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
However we do witness, very often, various 'fixture reports- journals' declaring vessels' fixtures at high hire or freight levels and - too often -beyond the reality we experience as brokers, owners or charterers and thus most of the times we are getting confused or frustrated - especially in this soft freight market -<br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This is because these reports/journals are taken -by many - for granted or as being the ultimate and <span style="color: blue;"><strong>ONLY</strong></span> reliable source for brokers or shipowners or charterers to base their judgement on, for fixing their vessels or cargoes, chasing and striving to achieve the ‘ journals reported levels’.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Like most of the economic papers and journalists writings influence investors psychology and the ‘market’ itself. However the ‘market’ it is us (brokers, owners, charterers). It has an identity, it is not something impersonal. It is you and me, all of us who fix vessels or cargoes as part of our daily routines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">We, here at <span style="color: #bf9000;"><strong>S.T.I.C</strong></span><span style="color: black;">,</span> receive daily various offers for our exclusive fleet or for our exclusive firm Charterers orders and we are indicated rates based on the argument of what these reports-journals reported as being the current market fixtures/rates.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #bf9000;"><strong>S.T.I.C's</strong></span> general company policy is to doubt, a priori, what is written in such reports and to make our own investigation, queries, through our own channels to check what the AVERAGE markets levels are and what is pragmatic or not, usual or unusual, what is a RECORD FIXTURE or what is a below the average fixture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But mostly we trust our everyday work and what we have in our hands every minute coming from experience and hard work and negotiations with charterers and owners alike.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Thus, we invite all our shipping colleagues, who wish to share their OWN, CONTROLLED, first hand INFORMATION, which is resulted as a product of <strong><span style="color: blue;">YOUR </span></strong>negotiations and eventual fixtures, to ALLY WITH US for useful information exchanges, which will eventually<br />
assist all of us in our everyday work adding <span style="color: blue;"><strong>CERTAINTY, CONTROL</strong></span> and <strong><span style="color: blue;">RESPONSIBILITY</span></strong> to our fixtures at any time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The above <span style="color: blue;"><strong>IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE JOURNALS & REPORTS</strong></span> will built an undisputed source of information based on reason and not on sentiment which is so volatile and fragile. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Looking forward to hearing from you with your interest to share your personal experience and information for dry bulk cargoes & vessels fixtures for HANDYMAX & SUPRAMAX size markets worldwide.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Anastasios Maraslis<br />
President/Director.</span><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>SHIPOWNERS TRUST INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>S.T.I.C</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: #bf9000;"><em>Shipping & Trading</em></span></strong></span><br />
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</div></div>SHIPOWNERS TRUST INT/NAL CORP.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11472158413082444844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-124711110599509188.post-32869680794343899592012-03-25T06:18:00.001-07:002012-03-25T06:22:07.185-07:00‘A SHIPBROKERS TRIBUTE'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">‘A SHIPBROKERS TRIBUTE'<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Article Written by Mr. Anastasios Maraslis<o:p></o:p></i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> S.T.I.C - President/Director<o:p></o:p></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"> 22nd February '012.</span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">'Tuesday morning 8:30am Feb, 2012 and many offices are still closed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">White collar employees are ‘trapped’ in traffic on their way to catch up with their morning tasks with </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">a bleary eye'.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The above scene stands for many but not for all!<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In shipping business we have to be all time alerts and work ‘strange’ unusual hours - often </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">from 4 am in the morning--to search and to discover the suitable vessel or the firm cargo.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">80-90 per cent of cargoes are transported via sea routes by ocean going vessels and this </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">makes our business a real, tangible business.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Shipbroker's role is a catalyst in shipping cargoes around the globe and this is a unique call.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Too often, competition is fierce and the long hours of work is exhausting, especially when </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">many shipbrokers are racing to get the same cargo -especially in a poor freight market -<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In a flourishing market, there is great demand and appetite for more vessels/ tonnage </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">capacity to cover plenty of cargoes available and anyone can and is fixing anything making </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">good money -even the cowboys of the market -<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Regrettably, but interestingly enough, Shipping has its peaks and its lows.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Nowadays, once again, we are experiencing a down spiral cycle, (similar to the ‘70’s, ‘80’s</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">and ‘90’s).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This shipping crisis though is different from the previous decades. Is not only the vessels’ </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">oversupply and the scarcity of cargoes trading - movement but we are experiencing an </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">unprecedented collapse in the banking system, the Europe’s financial turmoil and the </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">withdrawal and closure of many credit lines!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">No wonder for this is a new shipping recession it is part of the excitement our business </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">offers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In difficult periods like this, challenge is what keeps our hearts pounding with passion and </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">thirst for achievement and accomplishment.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">For it is in this challenging times the shipbrokers -worldwide- who must prove their role </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">significance with showing their focused and inexhaustible hard work and intelligence by </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">providing once again more than it is expected.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Vessels’ owners are very much worried for their vessel’s employment opportunities and the</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">scarcity of options in their goal to keep the propellers running at all times.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Profits are getting squeezed, sometimes close to non existent and often the aim is </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">becoming merely the survival, in certain trading areas and or cases.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Prompt paying credible charterers is owners’ a major concern also which a shipbroker must provide sufficient evidence and information for.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Strategic planning and repositioning of vessels is also a matter to contemplate seriously.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Those Shipbrokers who rely in their personal experience from their day in- day out hard </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">work have better control over their business and do always consult well and accurately </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">their clients.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Well experienced and dedicated hard workings Shipbrokers are the only professionals a </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">ship-owner, a Charterer or a Shipper can rely on in getting the right information for </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">planning the future or the next fixture.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A reason why Shipbrokers should be reading a lot what is going on internationally.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">They read financial papers and magazines, political papers, environmental/climate changes </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">reports so they would at all times have a clear understanding on how to interlink together </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">all important information and datums for comprehending how the shipping industry is or is </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">going to be affected.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As I aforesaid Shipping business is tangible and a very real business. Ships are daily </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">transporting millions of tons of cargoes from one country to another every day, and YOU, </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">THE SHIPBROKER - have made it happen!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Professional shipbrokers are not wasting a minute of their day and work pretty intensive </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">for many hours as it is an International business.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Disappointing and frustrating enough when dates change, or when a cargo is postponed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A successful shipbroker inspires himself and never lets the market’s downturns spoil his </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">moral.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">No matter the level of expertise he or she has he(she) always has the beginners mind and </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">treat clients with passion to win their business!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In every call he(she) is making he(she) is transpiring this passion and enthusiasm.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But most important of all is the code of ethics he(she) applies in his(her) daily routines!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Disciplined and ethical 'his word is his bond' endures and overcomes successfully anything </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">with 'clean hands'.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Since we all are emotional these days due to the unpleasant developments in the world </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">economy and the soft market this article is dedicated -as a special tribute- to our special<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>world wide colleagues, our special fellow and associated hard working shipbrokers,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">who support us since S.T.I.C was established in 1997 until today.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -88.7pt 0pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">S</span></o:p></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">pecial thanks to all!</span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><o:p>S.T.I.C</o:p></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><o:p>Anastasios Maraslis</o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Article written by Mr. Anastasios Maraslis</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> S.T.I.C-President/Director 28th February 2012</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">We are all experiencing a Shipping crisis similar to the '70's,'80's and '90's with very poor freight rates, oversupply of tonnage and due to the banking system turmoils</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">...limited credit lines and LAST BUT NOT LEAST : the bunker prices going off the rooftops!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In a bad freight market, economies must be made and do the outmost to maximize earnings on each voyage by cutting down expenses to the minimum.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">If you agree with the above last statement I hope that you will be benefited greatly considering the following:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Perhaps, there have been times in your shipping career that you might have been taken by surprise with the volatility of the BUNKERS COSTS.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Bunkers costs is a major cost in vessel's running expenses and something you can't ignore in a poor freight market like this.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sometimes, you might even have witnessed, that the difference between prices available at each end of a voyage exceeds </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">the value of the freight per ton of cargo carried!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Thus in difficult times, a good forward planning has to be made and surprisingly anyone can discover that <strong>CARGO INTAKE SHOULD BE RESTRICTED</strong> so that maximum quantities</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">of bunkers can be lifted at a loading port where bunker supplies are a lot less expensive than at the intended discharging port.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>==>GREAT DEAL OF MONEY CAN BE SAVED, OR LOST</strong> for the shipping company, depending on how the balance looks between cargo and bunkers!<strong> <==</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A bunkers planning framework if followed or put into the computer can make you huge savings and cut back your company's running expenses .</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Unplanned bunkering or, alternatively, calculated by some one on the back of a napkin can waste you lots of money!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Systematic planning by the ship operator for each voyage of a vessel, can produce very large savings of thousands of dollars protecting and maximising your company's income.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">HERE ARE THE PARAMETERS FOR CONSIDERATION AND RESPOND FOR A WELL THOUGHT BUNKERS FORWARD PLANNING:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">1. What is the optimum speed and consumption for the voyage? The first calculation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">2. Steaming, time and consumption.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">3. What price? Alternatives and how to choose?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">4. Freight or bunkers?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">5. Unusual cases to be considered and be prepared.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A DWT 40,000 bulk carrier proceeding from Rotterdam in ballast to load steel products and wood pulp in Brazil, then sailing on to Durban to discharge and take further cargo, before sailing finally to Japan.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Where should she lift up bunkers and to what extend? Rotterdam? Durban? Singapore? Japan?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Many alternatives to be considered and each one at each own merit on a voyage-by-voyage bunker buying basis.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Knowledge and information is power which is interpreted in MONEY SAVINGS OR PROFITS, if you know how to appropriately apply them to your benefit.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I hereby wish to take this opportunity to thank you all for your kind support and acknowledgement contributing in our company's value.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sincerely Yours,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Anastasios A. Maraslis</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">President/Director.</span><br />
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