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And finally, investors and
stakeholders should remain
disciplined.
Next-generation shipping is
becoming more dynamic, says Mr
Helberg, and for that, the industry
needs to be aware of so much more.
Financial investors need to
take an interest in much more than
financial figures. There is a need to
be more aware of asset technology,
the capabilities of chosen shipyards,
regulations that can easily upset an
investment.
Add to this the market stress
that brings with it dynamics and
opportunities, and that is what makes
Mr Helberg excited about the future.
Mr Helberg was appointed head
of RS Platou Markets when he joined
the investment bank five years ago. He
became known through his ascension
in Pareto Securities, where in the seven
years in the company, he rose from
being an analyst to becoming a partner
and head of shipping research.
A master’s graduate from City
University Business School in London,
he is one of the top brokers in the
industry and has a number of merits
to his name, including those from the
analyst ranking agencies StarMine and
Prospera.
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The 31-year-old corporate shortsea shipping
director and keen horseman is just one
member of the third generation to be working
in the family business
Italy Finnlines has just reported a very
Guido Grimaldi successful 2014.
GRIMALDI’s Motorways of the Sea “We delivered a €40m ($44.6m)
network continues to expand — and improvement on the bottom line
Guido Grimaldi’s enthusiasm only at Finnlines — last year was quite
increases year by year. “I love my job amazing,” he says.
— it is very demanding but I don’t feel
stressed,” he says. “I get even more And while the introduction of
excited and have more energy.” the sulphur emission control areas
has been the ‘hot issue’, he says
Guido, now 31, joined the family Finnlines has successfully found a
business in 2005 after graduating solution in order to comply without
in economics at in Naples and then passing on huge additional costs to
studying for an MBA in logistics in customers.
Frankfurt. But he had been immersed
in all things shipping since he was 16 “We have installed scrubbers on
years old, when he was sent away for 15 vessels — it was quite a massive
three or four weeks each summer to investment of almost €70m,” he says.
serve on board Grimaldi vessels. With the alternative being a switch to
ultra low-sulphur fuels, “we believe it
As corporate shortsea shipping was the best solution we could adopt”,
director, he now spends one or two he says.
weeks out of every month in Finland,
where the Grimaldi subsidiary