Lacking any intelligence from our staff on the ground (we concede that they must be busy), we have been relying up till now on third parties (thanks Brad) for reports on our 6th Annual German Ship Finance Forum in Hamburg. We hear it has been a great success with over 400 owners and financiers attending the conference itself no less the many ancillary fun events. This event keeps growing and has become the number two Marine Money Conference, second only to Marine Money Week. We all know about Avis and Hertz; so we challenge Germany to continue to grow in 2008.
For the success of this conference, we are grateful to our conference partner, HypoVereinsbank and the many other sponsors too numerous to mention. We also offer kudos to Mike McCleery, our new conference organizer, who took on the challenge with great success. And finally we thank Mr. Christian von Olderhausen who took on the thankless role of conference chairman. Happily, Nora Huvane was on site and filed the following article at the conclusion of the conference. As our Chairman constantly says, “Get me color.” So here it is.
This is only an excerpt of All (not so) Quiet on the Western Front – 02/22/2007
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