Lightship Chartering (Oslo)

Lightship Chartering is a shipbroker. It arranges dry bulk chartering and sale and purchase of vessels, and offers freight advisory and offshore brokerage covering chartering, newbuilding, finance and market intelligence.

Its clients include cargo owners, ship owners, operators, charterers and infrastructure investors. The company matches their requirements to find terms that suit all parties to a transaction. Its dry bulk brokerage primarily covers the Handysize, Supra/Ultramax and Panamax/Kamsarmax sectors. Freight advisory supports clients that manage freight in-house or outsource it.

The Norwegian entity, Lightship Chartering (Oslo) AS, was established in 2015, and the business traces its history to 1975, when it started in Copenhagen with a team focused on coaster vessels. The company is a panel broker on the Baltic Exchange and has offices in Athens, Beijing, Copenhagen, Dubai, Geneva, Genoa, London, Miami, Oslo, Santiago and Singapore. It reports a team of more than 220 staff. Recruitment covers brokerage, chartering operations and finance, and it runs the Lightship Academy trainee programme each September.

Product: Shipbroking services: dry bulk chartering, freight advisory, sale and purchase, and offshore brokerage.