The decision making process in strategic shipping financial management consists of three main pillars: investment, financing and operation. Each pillar defines its own sub-universe and constitutes its own market with its own rules. The investment pillar refers to the market for newly built and...

There are three well-known, generally accepted vessel pricing methods: The Market Comparable Method, known as ‘marked to the market’ approach or frequently referred to as ‘last done’in shipping. In a simplified way, Karatzas (2009) describes it as: ‘What someone paid recently for a...