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working there, she studied for no Trading Association (Wista) and the Dry bulkers, in contrast, are faltering
fewer than three master’s degrees, in Association of Women Entrepreneurs due to a heavy reliance on Chinese coal
maritime economics, law and politics; (Aidda). She is also on the board of the and iron ore imports from Brazil and
in trading and chartering; and in UK Defence Club. Australia, leaving the bulk carrier market
shipmanagement. dangerously exposed to the slower pace
She finds herself at the forefront of Chinese economic growth.
She worked as a broker for of an intriguing polarisation in the
Clarksons for almost three years and commodity shipping markets. The Bottiglieri offspring will
joined the family business in 2004, as be tasked with negotiating this new
director of chartering. Tankers are soaring as limited dynamic as it becomes more pronounced
fleet growth combines with increased in the coming years — a test of any young
Mariella is on the boards of the demand, generating the kind of spot executive’s mettle if ever there was one.
Women’s International Shipping & rates not seen for at least five years.

Salvatore, Emanuele, Antonia and Lorenzo are among
those in the third generation of the d’Amico familyto play

an active role in the expanding business

Italy
d’Amico family

THE d’Amico Shipping Group’s and technical departments between He worked as a broker with Cambiaso
core business is the management 2008 and 2012, he spent eight months as Risso Marine for two years and joined
and operation of dry cargo vessels an analyst with JP Morgan Chase in Italy. the family business at the start of this
and tankers and the provision of He is now based in Monaco, in D’Amico year, working in operations at d’Amico
international shipping services. Shipping Group’s chartering division. Tankers UK.

Founded by a group of brothers Antonia d’Amico is tankers It is an Italian family that finds
in the 1950s, the company says its general manager, based in Singapore itself in potentially one of its most
focus is on dovetailing international since last August. financially rewarding periods of its
development with its tradition as a history, as the product tanker market
family-run business, aiming to forge Lorenzo d’Amico studied business emerges from its slumber of the past
strong links with the local area, with the and managerial economics at the five years.
history of the d’Amico Group and with University of Malta and gained his MSc
the various places around the world in in shipping, trade and finance from Indeed, d’Amico International
which it operates. Cass Business School in London in 2013. Tankers is expanding its fleet to take

The third generation of the
d’Amico family is well represented in
the company.

Among them is Salvatore
d’Amico, who studied economics and
management at the University of Rome
Tor Vergata and joined the family
business in 2008. He worked as a marine
supervising manager and then fleet
manager for d’Amico Dry, and has been
fleet director for the group since 2012.

Emanuele d’Amico first worked for
the group as an intern in 2008. After
working in d’Amico’s chartering, finance

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