The next Baltic Exchange/Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers lecture in London (13 November at the Baltic Exchange) will focus on ship finance and will be delivered by Tony Foster, CIO of Marine Capital. The lunchtime lecture will focus on how asset owners and others with exposure to freight rates raise capital today; how does it affect an owner’s chartering decisions as well as related streams; why are we seeing an increasing number of charterer- owner JVs and what the motivations are for these sort of tie ups?

The popular lecture series is aimed at building wider industry knowledge amongst younger chartering and operations staff. 

Tony has over 35 years’ experience in the shipping industry (including 13 years spent in Asia) spanning ownership, commercial management, broking and fund management. Together with partners, Tony has successfully bought, developed, led and sold numerous shipping businesses including ship owning, technical management, consultancy and shipbroking. One such business was merged into a pre-IPO entity which became Pacific Basin on listing, following which, Tony took up a management role in Pacific Basin and became a shareholder. After the float of Pacific Basin (which is listed in Hong Kong), he founded Marine Capital in November 2003. Throughout his career, Tony has bought, sold and chartered hundreds of ships across many sectors and since forming Marine Capital, he has led and executed a number of shipping transactions both on behalf of an in partnership with external investors. Tony graduated from Oxford in 1976 with an honours degree in jurisprudence.

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