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Martin Hager

Martin Hager

Martin Hugger is Managing Director of Meerbaum Capital Solutions Inc., a ship finance advisory firm, and a frequent panelist at Capital Link shipping forums.

Sep 15, 2026

13:18
maybe 50, a few handfuls.
13:22
Then we have the new builds that are financed by the builder countries, institutions like banks or lease finance or ECA covered.
13:33
Then we have smaller companies that are in the right place that have competitive price finance from local banks, sometimes with many bells and whistles.
13:46
And not everyone wants to give them a personal guarantee if the company is owned by him and his brother also.
13:53
And then we have smaller companies in the wrong country or with more ambitions than being forever a five vessel company.
14:02
And those are the ones where alternative finance usually comes in.
14:08
If you reverse it and look from our perspective, big banks want big clients, local banks want local clients, alternative finance wants growth clients with quality vessels and quality backing.

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Raj SemiMODERATOR
20:50
And Harris and Martin, do you find that there are opportunities in the market for you or sectors which you focus on?

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