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Ioannis Martinos:经纪人和未来的灵活池

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During any conference about the future of shipping you are certain to hear some assertive point about disruptive outsiders penetrating the industry and displacing centuries-old institutions and ways of doing business.

但是,当它是一个行业内幕,在可能的意义上,正在驾驶改变的行业内幕?是所谓的航运现货市场的特性仍然是一个理性的概念吗?

"The complexity of chartering ships and finding the right ship and so on, is so much greater in the shipping industry, that the connection (with Uber) falls apart when you add this complexity," Signal Group chief executive Ioannis Martinos recently told Lloyd's List in an interview.

Martinos Mar Martinos先生将他的职位作为由他的家庭成立的希腊航运公司的合作长官,以自己冒险并建立一个新的商业船手。

More than four years later, Mr Martinos now heads up the Signal Group, a company comprising commercial shipmanager Signal Maritime and the Signal Ocean Platform, an artificial intelligence-based service that aggregates and analyses market data to improve daily business decisions, such as spot market charter contracts.

将传统的运输背景结合在一起,作为希腊最强大的运输家庭之一的成员,并且在行业中数字技术的出现时明确地信仰,Martinos先生正在适应今天的市场需求,并利用基本上是未开发的空间。

Signal Group is off to a strong start and the tide appears to be strongly in its favour. But 2019 could turn out to be a test of how positively Mr Martinos's vision is perceived.

A flexible pool for the future?

Signal Maritime currently manages eight aframax vessels, one medium range two tanker and one panamax bulker.

9月份,它软了推出了AFRAMAX池,并预计将于2019年1月正式开始运营。

商业池是一个苛刻的企业,因为管理者必须同时安抚许多不同的所有者。

马提比奥斯先生说,池的财务表现是业主对业主的主要关注点。

但第二个重要参数正在说服池分配利润并试图满足过程中的每个人的方式 - 这是相当大的挑战。

“[传统游泳池]的方式试图处理这是通过拥有最低船舶的承诺期留在池中。但这是所有者并不愿意尝试游泳池的摩擦点之一,因为他们他说,不要长时间锁定自己。“

从成员的固定时间承诺上的典型较大池中区分自己,信号通过为遗嘱提供了更大的进入和退出来旨在更具创新性。

虽然信号的方法给人带来了大量自由,但它也可以使池的盈利分配更复杂。Martinos先生解释说,当船舶在进入和退出之间发生位置时,信号在池中连续评估池中的任何剩余或赤字。

例如,如果所有者在装载Fronthault货物时进入池中的船只并在该装运结束时删除船只,则池通过排放来自装运的货物的收入,并避免完全进行后续回程航行。

这种差异意味着游泳池必须公平地报销外向船的所有者,以便为池的贡献贡献。Martinos先生认为,在评估这种困境以以满足所有利益相关者的方式提供速度的情况非常好。

尽管有所改善态度,Martinos先生认为航运市场仍然非常怀疑池,因为当市场紧张时更大的较大表现不佳。

"It is all relative. It is not going to be perfect. But we think we can take one significant step forward in terms of satisfying people in this respect," he said.

With the aframax pool officially starting in January, Mr Martinos would be comfortable with adding one vessel to the pool per month over 2019.

但随着较大的球员的兴趣,船长的舰队在年底之前可以增加20岁甚至30艘船只。

虽然单独的实体,信号海事的野心是由集团的数字平台提供支持的,并且它已经积累了它。

新时事通讯横幅

The Signal Ocean Platform aggregates data from various sources including e-mails, brokers and others to help owners and charterers secure the most favourable spot charter deals.

该平台已经被公司使用,包括课程的信号海事,其Suezmax,Aframax和非常大的原油运营商占现货市场的50%。

马丁诺斯先生没有淡化他的野心:他希望股份增加到100%,使该平台成为工业公司在业界使用的明显工具。

“它不一定是唯一一个,但我们希望它能够成为每个人使用的工具的名册,”他说。

通过自己入学,该企业花费了比他预期的更长时间,因为建立足够好的系统的纯粹数学挑战大于最初估计。

该平台花了三年半的时间达到令人满意的水平,而不是两个Martinos先生最初估计的水平。

"There is a threshold you need to cross before people consider that what you have built is actually useful. And crossing that threshold for the shipping space was actually a bit harder, mathematically speaking - or engineering speaking - than one would have thought," he said.

市场反馈到目前为止一直鼓励。Mr Martinos said that not a single tanker company that had been presented the platform had said it would not use it.

“我们有一些公司说这是切片面包以来最好的东西,”他说,而其他人则告诉他们他们发现它有趣,并会尝试一下。

迄今为止拥有一个很大程度上是西方专注的客户,Martinos先生最近通过向新加坡的公开访问向亚洲分开,并声称他已经看到了亚洲行动的兴趣以来。

经纪人:新老朋友

在过去的几年里,冬眠运输行业的警告被外部力量被扰乱了,这些力量被宣传了未开发的数字空间的潜力。

And one of the casualties of increased digitalisation and disruption are said to be mediators, and, not least of all, ship brokers.

乍一看,马丁诺斯州马丁诺斯州先生的智能平台可能看起来像那个预兆的化身。但他坚持不懈。事实上,他认为它只是补充了船舶经纪人。

"If a company makes hammers and they want a hammer to be in every household it does not mean that the handyman will disappear, right?" he said.

所有平台都确实使信息更快,更令人愉快地喂养信息,允许更专注于过程的高附加值部分,而不是花费相当一天通过信息拖网。

“这只是市场的工具。它实际上依赖于经纪人提供系统饲料的数据,同样的方式提供信息经纪人的运输专业源在今天没有平台的情况下提供的方式,”他说。

他不仅不认为经纪人是比赛,他认为它们是平台的下一个目标受众。

Martinos先生建立了与所有者和租船者的良好关系,希望经纪人使用该平台并承认公司仍然落后于此。

Increasing regulatory pressures, most notably the upcoming 2020 sulphur cap, are adding to owners' financial costs.

该平台不会帮助所有者准备帽。但马提尼斯先生希望它可以帮助他们比没有它更快的反应。

“规定的最终足迹是市场如何运作的变化。这可能是一个小或巨大的变化,”马提尼斯先生说。

The idea is that the platform helps users understand quickly how trading patterns change in the sector, he said.

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