Peter Brodrick Kerr-Dineen

Baltic Exchange Information Services Ltd. provides an online exchange for ships and cargoes. It also maintains professional ship broking standards and resolves disputes. The firm provides independently gathered real-time freight market information such as daily fixtures, indices for the cost of shipping wet and dry cargos, route rates and a market for the trading of freight futures. The company was founded in 1857 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

The Baltic Exchange Ltd. provides maritime market information. The firm's information services cover voyage and timecharter rates for capesize, panamax, supramax, and handysize bulk carriers; VLCC, aframax, and MR tankers, liquifide petroleum gas vessels as well as forward assessments, vessel values, market reports, and fixtures and demolition values. The company was founded in 1857 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Howe Robinson & Co. Ltd. was established in London in 1883. It has since grown into one of the largest privately-owned dry-cargo and containership broking houses in the world, with about 100 brokers based in the London head office and its branch offices overseas. In 2006 Howe Robinson merged with Angus Graham and Partners LLP and in 2007 purchased Killick Martin Chartering Ltd. Business activities of the group range through all aspects of Dry-Cargo and Containership Chartering and Sale and Purchase markets, including valuations and research. In Howe Robinson Shipbrokers, specialist desks work particular areas of the dry cargo market with departments spread across the company globally. The company became involved in the container market as it started to develop, and has established itself as a leading broker in this field. Erlebach Shipbrokers was incorporated into Howe Robinson in 1992 and provides shipbroking services to a number of major sugar houses. Howe Robinson Sale and Purchase and New Building departments handle the group's activities in second-hand, new buildings and demolition of containerships and bulk carriers. The company is headquartered in London, GB.