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When it comes to Shipping Finance, Many Choices but Few Options

Dec 8, 20195 min read

When it comes to Shipping Finance, Many Choices but Few Options

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

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Geo-political Uncertainty and Shipping: It was Rarely Like That Before

Basil M Karatzas

Oct 26, 20194 min read

Geo-political Uncertainty and Shipping: It was Rarely Like That Before

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

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Thinking of Blue Ocean Strategies in Shipping

Basil M Karatzas

Jul 28, 20196 min read

Thinking of Blue Ocean Strategies in Shipping

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

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Basil M Karatzas

Jul 22, 20192 min read

Financing Jones Act Tonnage

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

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Basil M Karatzas

Jul 1, 20192 min read

Tales from the Offshore Industry

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

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Karatzas Marine presented at the Grain & Maritime Days in Odessa, Ukraine

Basil M Karatzas

Jun 5, 20191 min read

Karatzas Marine presented at the Grain & Maritime Days in Odessa, Ukraine

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

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In the Press, Basil Karatzas / Karatzas Marine Advisors & Co

Basil M Karatzas

Apr 20, 20192 min read

In the Press, Basil Karatzas / Karatzas Marine Advisors & Co

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

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Basil M Karatzas

Mar 23, 20191 min read

Topics in Shipping Industry Valuation

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

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Shipping Finance 2019 Conference, A "Must-attend" Event

Basil M Karatzas

Feb 3, 20191 min read

Shipping Finance 2019 Conference, A "Must-attend" Event

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

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Karatzas Marine Advisors & Co. Hosting its Annual Shipping Conference in Athens, Greece

Basil M Karatzas

Jan 17, 20193 min read

Karatzas Marine Advisors & Co. Hosting its Annual Shipping Conference in Athens, Greece

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

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Developments in the Fishing and Seafood Industries

Basil M Karatzas

Dec 22, 20181 min read

Developments in the Fishing and Seafood Industries

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

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Publicly-listed Shipping Companies May Deserve Better Valuations

Basil M Karatzas

Dec 9, 20185 min read

Publicly-listed Shipping Companies May Deserve Better Valuations

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...

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2018 was Indeed a Forgettable Year for Shipping. Is There More to It?

Basil M Karatzas

Nov 25, 20183 min read

2018 was Indeed a Forgettable Year for Shipping. Is There More to It?

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

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We May Never Understand the Ocean-Wide Damage Done by Industrial Whaling

Basil M Karatzas

Sep 21, 20181 min read

We May Never Understand the Ocean-Wide Damage Done by Industrial Whaling

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

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Fishy business: an article from the Financial Times on Taiwan's fishing industry

Basil M Karatzas

Sep 21, 20181 min read

Fishy business: an article from the Financial Times on Taiwan's fishing industry

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

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Basil M Karatzas

Aug 18, 20181 min read

Cattle Auctioneers

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

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Tuna Trans-shipment Operations in Majuro Lagoon, Marshall Islands

Basil M Karatzas

Jul 6, 20181 min read

Tuna Trans-shipment Operations in Majuro Lagoon, Marshall Islands

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

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Images of American-flagged Tuna Fishing Vessel FV 'Ocean Challenger'

Basil M Karatzas

Jul 6, 20181 min read

Images of American-flagged Tuna Fishing Vessel FV 'Ocean Challenger'

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

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Basil M Karatzas

Jul 1, 20181 min read

Images from the Marshall Islands

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

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Images of Pelagic Purse Seiner Tuna Fishing Vessel FV 'Atun Sta' Departing the Majuro Lagoon

Basil M Karatzas

Jun 27, 20181 min read

Images of Pelagic Purse Seiner Tuna Fishing Vessel FV 'Atun Sta' Departing the Majuro Lagoon

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

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