Thank You: For Oslo and Hong Kong

Over the course of two days in April, 300 of leading ship owners, financiers and other ship finance professionals gathered at the Hong Kong Yacht Club, Hong Kong’s Excelsior Hotel, Oslo Stock Exchange, Oslo Concert Hall and various restaurants and tap rooms in Oslo and Hong Kong to exchange views on ship finance.

Deals were done in hallways, friends were reacquianted and jokes were shared. But above all, more than at any other time in the 12 years that we have published Marine Money, a feeling of change is charging the atmosphere with electricity.

Pools, public companies, mergers, fiercer regulations, e-commerce-the feeling all over the world is that the shipping industry is undergoing the largest change it has experienced at any time in this century. Where there is change there is opportunity and the opportunities have truly never been greater for all of us.

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