Ever since the market collapsed in 2008 and banks active in the shipping industry experienced heavy losses, many have been expecting a...

An overarching theme of the shipping industry this year has been "uncertainty"; not that shipping has even been an easily predictable...

Spending time with a couple older, biographical books on the pioneers of the shipping industry, Aristotle Onassis and Stavros Niarchos,...

While international shipowners seem to face a dwindling set of shipping finance options these days, Jones Act shipowners in the U.S....

Idling drilliships and semi-submersible platforms at Las Palmas, Gran Canarïa, Spain, may have a story of destruction of value to tell,...

Always staying close to cargoes and cargo movements, an fundamental aspect of the shipping industry, the CEO of Karatzas Marine Advisors,...

Recent Quotations in the In the Press of Basil Karatzas / Karatzas Marine Advisors & Co. on maritime matters As LNG gets more abundant...

Presentation at the ASA New York Chapter in March 2019 Basil M Karatzas, an Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA), presented at the monthly...

Delighted to report that the Shipping Finance 2019 Conference co-organized by Karatzas Marine Advisors & Co. has been a a great success!...

Please join us for an agenda-setting , high-powered conference on shipping finance and shipping technologies on January 24th, 2019 So we...

Delicious seafood can be an epicurean apotheosis, but the fishing industry depends on weather conditions and climate change, evolving...

According to a recent study by E&Y, there have been 1,000 Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) globally in the first three quarters of 2018, a...

So far in 2018, the shipping freight markets have been proven uninspiring; current freight indices produced by the Baltic Exchange, the...

Link to article originally published in The New Yorker on August 12th, 2018. We May Never Understand the Ocean-Wide Damage Done by...

Link to the Financial Times article is re-published here for information purposes only, without expressing opinion or judgement or...

Auctions for ships are usually more subtle, but we thought that the following article from The New Yorker on cattle auctioneers was too...

Reefer vessel MV 'Fong Kuo 818' loading fish from the tuna purse seiner fishing vessel FV 'Ocean Challenger', moored alongside, during...

Pictured departing the picturesque Majuro Lagoon, Marshall Islands, pelagic purse seiner tuna fishing vessel FV 'Ocean Challenger'...

Having visited the Marshall Islands, for business and pleasure... the pleasure aspect of the trip shown on this post...

Purse Seiner Tuna Fishing Vessel FV 'Atun Sta' departing the Majuro Lagoon. Pictures originally posted on 'In the Sea We See' blog in...