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“Having ISSS organised as part of LISW15 was the right

thing to do as the week presented a unique opportunity

for InterManager to provide a platform for high level

”
discussion and excellent networking

Capt. Kuba Szymanski,

Secretary General, InterManager

Co-organiser of the ISSS Conference

during London International Shipping

Week heard familiar themes from Private equity could target

EUNAVFOR, BIMCO and CSOs
shipmanagement more, says

Alliance – namely that maritime crime
V.Group boss
and piracy have not disappeared;

indeed without continued efforts

from both the private and public
P
sector, they could well return.RIVATE equity is likely to

The Head of EUNAVFOR, Major start taking a stronger

General Martin Smith, MBE said: interest in shipmanagement,

“Because of the naval patrols and having got comfortable with

merchant vessels’ self-protection investing in shipowners, thinks

measures, including the use of private Clive Richardson, Chief Executive

armed security teams, in the Indian of V.Group, one of the industry’s

Ocean, counter-piracy forces assess leading shipmanagers, and itself

that the threat from long-range pirate controlled by PE funds.

attacks in the near future is reduced.”Talking to an audience of

ship managers during London

International Shipping Week, Mr

Richardson said private equity

funds had helped V.Group grow

and invest in expansion, saying the

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