Maritime & Merchant Bank ASA (M&M), a ship finance boutique based in Oslo which opened for business in December 2016, is establishing a successful track record in providing conventional first priority loans for traditional shipping customers.
The Norwegian Shipowners’ Association annual member survey has demonstrated improving sentiment amongst the country’s owners as they anticipate a modest 3% rise in revenue this year. This follows sharp dips in 2016 and 2017 – down 19% and 5%...
The autonomous ship, and technological developments in maritime, were very much on the agenda with keynote speakers from Japan and Norway at the opening of Sea Japan 2018 in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Being adaptive is essential for maritime and ocean orientated industries to compete in a sector facing change and disruption, according to a Norwegian government official.
Norway’s Eksportkreditt institute is offering a new financing set-up for Norwegian limited companies. Until now, such schemes have only been available for export transactions, rather than domestic operators.
Shipping group Wilhelmsen and equipment manufacturer Kongsberg are setting up the world's first autonomous shipping company which is designed to offer the entire value chain for unmanned vessels.
Norway’s $1.1trn sovereign wealth fund has excluded investing in four well-known shipowners for their use of the beaching method to scrap ships, and placed a fifth under observation.
Shipbrokers Howe Robinson Partners are expanding into Norway with a new office in Bergen focusing on dry cargo.