Recollecting Dynasties of the Sea

In our most commemorative work yet, Marine Money is collaborating with CNBC senior talent producer and Thriving in the New Economy author Lori Ann LaRocco to publish the first book ever to capture the collective achievements of the shipping industry's greatest leaders.

Launching November 12, 2012, Dynasties of the Sea: The Shipowners and Financiers who Expanded the Era of Free Trade is the first book to examine one of the most powerful, and least known, forces in global trade and economic development: the world's shipping magnates:

Operating from strongholds from Monaco to Hong Kong, London to Athens, Singapore to Oslo, global shipowners and their financiers have changed the world we live in today - by transforming the globe into a single marketplace in which producers and consumers can transact. From transporting agricultural products from Brazil to Africa and the Middle East, to delivering Australian iron ore to China to carrying Middle East crude oil to Asia and the America to carrying almost every article of clothing you are wearing to every electronic device in the world, shipowners have enabled global economic development and helped raise the global standard of living. While ocean shipping remains one of the most important businesses in the world, it is also among the most volatile. Affected by imponderable factors like weather and political upheaval, shipowning cultures have maintained a commitment to the industry that has endured for centuries. The candid, detailed first person profiles that comprise Dynasties of the Sea provide critical insight into the psychology of little known shipping magnates - from how they view risk to what they see happening in the world tomorrow.

Dynasties of the Sea is written by Lori Ann LaRocco featuring a Preface by Marine Money President and author Matt McCleery. With a Foreword by Lawrence B. Lindsey, Former Director of the National Economic Council, and an Afterword with Martin Stopford, President, Clarksons Research Services, the book features discussions with:

Morten Arntzen, President & CEO, Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. 
Rajaish Bajpaee, CEO, Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement
Robert Bugbee, President, Scorpio Tankers
Peter Evensen, President & CEO, Teekay Corporation 
Charles Fabrikant, Chairman, SEACOR Holdings Inc. 
Angeliki Frangou, Chairman & CEO, Navios Maritime Holdings Inc. 
John Fredriksen, Chairman, CEO & President, Frontline Ltd. 
Roberto Giorgi, President, V.Ships
Kristin H. Holth, Executive Vice President & General Manager, DnB Bank ASA
Philippe Louis-Dreyfus, President, Louis-Dreyfus Armateurs Group
Dagfinn Lunde, Head of Shipping & Member of the Board, DVB Bank SE 
Nicholas A. Pappadakis, CEO, A. G. Pappadakis & Co. and Chairman, Intercargo 
Michael A.J. Parker, Global Industry Head, Shipping & Logistics, Citi 
Wilbur L. Ross, Jr., Chairman & CEO, WL Ross & Co. LLC 
Andreas Sohmen-Pao, Group CEO, BW Group 
Jacob Stolt-Nielsen, Director, Stolt-Nielsen M.S. Ltd. 
Niels Stolt-Nielsen, CEO, Stolt-Nielsen M.S. Ltd.
James Tisch, President & CEO, Loews Corporation
Tor Olav Trøim, Vice President & Director, Seadrill 
Gerry Wang, CEO & Director, Seaspan Corporation
Robert Yuksel Yildirim, President, Yildirim Holding Inc.

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