corporate members

ABS Americas
Founded in 1862, ABS is a global leader in providing classification services for marine and offshore assets. Our mission is to serve the public interest as well as the needs of our members and clients by promoting the security of life and property and preserving the natural environment. ABS’ commitment to safety, reliability and efficiency is ever-present.

All Marine Spares International
We are an International Maritime Machinery Specialist that focuses on the study and supply of American, European, Korean, Japanese and Chinese made machinery systems for the Commercial Shipping, Offshore, Military and Shipbuilding Sectors.

AMA Capital Partners
Established in 1987, AMA is the only merchant banking partnership in the U.S. exclusively focused on the transportation, energy and offshore industries. Proven expertise across a wide spectrum of advisory services including mergers and acquisitions, restructuring distressed companies, capital raising and strategic planning – AMA also manages an active fund to invest equity and mezzanine debt as well as provide asset leasing options to owners and operators – Affiliate of AMA Securities, LLC a registered broker/dealer specializing in M&A advisory, fairness opinions, private placements.

Argus Media
Argus is an independent media organisation with over 1,100 staff. It is headquartered in London and has 26 offices in the world’s principal commodity trading and production centres. Argus produces price assessments and analysis of international energy and other commodity markets, and offers bespoke consulting services and industry-leading conferences. Companies in 140 countries around the world use Argus data to index physical trade and as benchmarks in financial derivative markets as well as for analysis and planning purposes.

Blank Rome LLP
Blank Rome is an Am Law 100 firm with 14 offices and more than 600 attorneys and principals who provide a full range of legal and advocacy services to clients operating in the United States and around the world. Our professionals are widely recognized for their leading knowledge and experience across a broad spectrum of industries, as well as their dedication to diversity and inclusion initiatives and pro bono work.

Braemar Technical Services
Braemar is a leading international provider of knowledge and skill-based services to the shipping, marine, and energy industries. The Group comprises four operating divisions, Shipbroking, Financial, Engineering and Logistics. These work together to offer a unique combination of skills for clients, at anytime, anywhere in the world.

Capital Link, Inc.
Founded in 1995, Capital Link is a New York based investor relations, financial communications and advisory firm with a strategic focus on the maritime, commodities and energy sectors, MLPs, as well as Closed-End Funds and ETFs. Capital Link offers a full suite of services including strategic and corporate advisory, investor relations, media relations, public and industry relations and the organization of corporate events.

Charles R. Weber Company, Inc.
Charles R. Weber is one of the foremost spot and period tanker chartering brokers in the world. As panel brokers for all of the major oil companies and traders in the United States and many overseas, our dedicated multi-national team of experienced brokers and operations managers utilize the latest technology, exercise the highest ethical standards, and employ the experience of a senior management nucleus that has been together for over twenty years.

Citrin Cooperman
Citrin Cooperman is one of the nation’s largest professional services firms. Citrin Cooperman & Company, LLP, a licensed independent CPA firm that provides attest services and Citrin Cooperman Advisors LLC, which provides business advisory and non-attest services, operate as an alternative practice structure in accordance with the AICPA’s Code of Professional Conduct and applicable law, regulations and professional standards.

Compass Maritime Services, LLC
Compass Maritime Services LLC is one of the pre-eminent Sale and Purchase brokers and maritime advisors based in the United States. The company was established in 2000 and the founding partners have been working together for over 25 years, previously with the sale & purchase Department of A.L. Burbank (incorporated in New York in 1929).

Core Assurance CR Marine
Operating in a regional economy heavily influenced by the maritime industry, the Core Assurance team offers decades of firsthand experience serving and protecting a wide variety of maritime interests. Federal legislation, regulation, contractual obligations, and an increasingly global marketplace all threaten the ever-changing waters. Our clients rest assured knowing we have the expertise to navigate the hazards and charter solutions on their behalf.

Cozen O’Connor
Ranked among the top 100 law firms in the country, Cozen O’Connor has more than 775 attorneys in 30 cities across two continents. We are a full-service firm with nationally recognized practices in litigation, business law, and government relations, and our attorneys have experience operating in all sectors of the economy. Our diverse client list includes global Fortune 500 companies, middle-market firms poised for growth, ambitious startups, and high-profile individuals.

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Cravath has been known as one of the premier U.S. law firms for two centuries. Each of our practice areas is highly regarded, and our lawyers are recognized around the world for their commitment to the representation of our clients’ interests. Throughout our history, we have played a central role in developing how law is practiced, how lawyers are trained and how business risk is managed. We are not, and do not strive to be, the largest law firm measured by number of offices or lawyers. Our goal is to be the firm of choice for clients with respect to their most challenging legal issues, most significant business transactions and most critical disputes.

Crystal & Company
Crystal & Company is the home for talented insurance professionals: creative, committed to their clients and driven to deliver extraordinary results.

DLA Piper US LLP
DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers located in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific, positioning us to help clients with their legal needs around the world.

Eagle Ocean Transport Inc.
EOTI, as the USA Agent for Dorian (Hellas) S.A (www.dorianhellas.com), provides services in chartering, sale & purchase, P&I and insurance, shipping finance and conducts industry and competitive analyses. When Eagle Ocean Transport Inc. (EOTI) was founded in the nineteen fifties it acted as General Agents for Orient Mid-East Lines, a company which pioneered sailings of deep sea ships from the Great Lakes to the Mediterranean and Far East with what were then the biggest deep sea ships to call in the Great Lakes.

ENGIE North America
ENGIE North America partners with the public sector to operate and maintain facilities in a cost-effective way while achieving their carbon-neutral ambitions. We provide cities, educational institutions, airports, ports, and government entities with opportunities to improve cost, reduce energy use, increase use of renewable energy, and ensure energy and utility reliability while improving the well-being of citizens.

EuroSeas Ltd./EuroDry Ltd.
EuroDry Ltd. was incorporated under the laws of the Republic of the Marshall Islands on January 8, 2018. The Company was incorporated by Euroseas (NASDAQ: ESEA) to serve as the holding company of seven dry bulk subsidiaries that were later spun-off by Euroseas to EuroDry Ltd. EuroDry Ltd. is provider of worldwide ocean-going transportation services. The Company owns and operates drybulk carriers that transport major bulks such as iron ore, coal and grains, and minor bulks such as bauxite, phosphate and fertilizers.

Freehill Hogan & Mahar LLP
Freehill Hogan & Mahar was founded in 1952 and today has diversified beyond its traditional maritime law practice to provide legal services in the following areas: trucker and motor carrier liability, premises liability, mass tort, defense of occupational disease cases, maritime environmental criminal defense and white collar criminal defense, terminal liability, commercial litigation, commodities sales contracts, workers’ compensation, Defense Base Act, defense of asbestos and toxic tort cases and sanctions compliance. 

Future Care Inc.
The company was founded in 1998 by Christina DeSimone, who brought her unique brand of medical case management for land-based employees directly to shipowners and ship managers and their insurers to better manage the medical care of their crews. Future Care has grown rapidly since then, filling a need in the maritime community for expert management of seafarers’ shipboard and shoreside medical treatment around the globe, reducing the shipowner’s costs.

Genco Shipping & Trading Limited
Genco Shipping & Trading Limited is a leading provider of international seaborne drybulk transportation services. We transport iron ore, coal, grain, steel products and other drybulk cargoes along worldwide shipping routes. Our wholly owned modern and diverse fleet of dry cargo vessels consists of Capesize, Ultramax and Supramax vessels that provide an essential link in international trade.

Hill, Betts & Nash LLP
Hill, Betts & Nash LLP is a full service law firm providing legal counsel on matters relating to Jones Act and commercial litigation, insurance, surety, admiralty and aviation law, as well as domestic and international commercial transactions, corporate governance, world trade and transportation, regulatory compliance, asset finance and bankruptcy. 

Hill Rivkins LLP
Hill Rivkins LLP is an established, enduring national law firm unsurpassed in the fields of admiralty and maritime, insurance, transportation, energy and international commerce. 

Holland & Knight LLP
Holland & Knight LLP is a global law firm with more that 1,250 lawyers and other professionals in 27 offices throughout the world, providing representation in litigation, business, real estate and governmental law. 

i.b.s. International Operative Services e.K.
To be able to pursue personal business or activities, an increase in personal security/personal protection, corporate security and the safety of employees has become part of a responsible corporate management. For more than two decades, the management and the employees of their company strives to protect their clients against such dangers through a wide range of developed services e.g. executive protection, maritime security, armed transportation escorts whether military or civil and since now for the fields of Cyber Threats and Cyber Security.

International Seaways, Inc.
International Seaways, Inc. is engaged in the ownership and operation of crude, product, and chemical tankers around the world. They provides shipping services to customers through voyage charters, commercial pools and time charters.

Lennon Murphy & Phillips LLC
The conscientious advocates of LM&P, dedicated to helping clients overcome obstacles and seize opportunities through the practical application of the law, consistently provide high level service through litigation, arbitration, mediation, negotiation, or by developing pragmatic solutions to complex problems. 

Lloyd’s List Intelligence
Lloyd’s List Intelligence is the world’s leading provider of shipping and insurance data, news and insight, as well as maritime and commercial law intelligence. Our NY Based Team works with clients throughout the Americas to provide quality service and engagement with the maritime industry.

Liberian Ship & Corporate Registry
The Liberian International Ship & Corporate Registry (LISCR, LLC) is a U.S. owned and operated company that provides the day-to-day management for the Republic of Liberia's (ROL) ship and corporate registry. 

Manhattan Chamber of Commerce
The Manhattan Chamber of Commerce is a community of businesses -- including startups, long-time neighborhood stores, mid-market firms and large companies -- that help one another succeed.

Marine Society of the City of New York
The Marine Society of New York is a charitable and educational organization, the regular membership being composed entirely of seafarers, all of whom must be, or have been Captains or Officers of merchant vessels under the United States flag. 

New York Harbor Foundation
Established in 2010, the New York Harbor Foundation funds and manages mission-critical programs for Harbor School students that are above and beyond the school’s scope and DOE budget.

Nordea Bank
Nordea Bank, a Nordic financial services group operating in Northern Europe, holds leading positions in corporate and institutional banking as well as in retail and private banking and are the leading provider of life and pensions products in the Nordic countries.

Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP
Norton Rose Fulbright is a global law firm, providing the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions with a full business law service with more than 3500 lawyers and other legal staff based in more than 50 cities across the globe.

Poles, Tublin, Stratakis & Gonzalez, LLP
Poles, Tublin, Stratakis & Gonzalez, LLP  is a General Practice Law Firm with lawyers specializing in real estate, trusts and estates, maritime law, and ship financing.

Reed Smith LLP
Reed Smith LLP represents many of the world's leading companies in high-stakes disputes, strategic transactions, and crucial regulatory matters, with an uncommon commitment to developing long-term client relationships by delivering quality service and value.

Reitler Kailas & Rosenblatt LLC
Reitler Kailas & Rosenblatt is a New York City headquartered business law firm with leading capabilities in private equity financings, fund formation, and mergers.

RMK Maritime Capital, LLC
RMK Capital and RMK Maritime work seamlessly to provide their clients with a full range of maritime finance and advisory solutions.
*Investment banking and other securities-related services provided exclusively by RMK Capital, LLC (Member of FINRA/SIPC)
*RMK Maritime (Europe) LLP provides non-securities maritime advisory, first-mortgage debt, sale leaseback, and other commercial maritime services

Rolls-Royce Naval Marine, Inc. 
Rolls-Royce has a world leading range of capabilities in the marine market, encompassing vessel design, the integration of complex systems and the supply and support of power and propulsion equipment.

Samrat Container Lines
Samrat Container Lines is a shipping and logistics company, catering to various industries not limited to retail, industrial goods, pharmaceuticals, construction, oil and gas, chemicals, etc. and specializing in NVOCC (container), Project Management, Cargo Insurance Services, Multi-modal transportation services and Distribution/Warehousing.

Scorpio Tankers, Inc.
Scorpio Tankers, Inc. is a leading international provider in the transportation of refined petroleum products. On a fully delivered basis Scorpio Tankers will own 87 product tankers (23 LR2, 50 MR, and 14 Handymax tankers).

Seward & Kissel LLP
Seward & Kissel LLP, founded in 1890, is a leading U.S. law firm with offices in New York City and Washington, D.C. focusing on corporate and litigation work for clients seeking legal expertise in the financial services, corporate finance and capital markets areas. 

Ship Finance International Limited
Established in 2003, Ship Finance International Limited has developed from a pure tanker owning company to one of the world’s largest ship-owning companies, with investments in the tanker, bulker, container and offshore segments and a significant charter backlog. The Company was listed on the New York stock Exchange in 2004 and has paid dividends every quarter since.

Squire Patton Boggs
Squire Patton Boggs is a full-service global law firm, providing the full range of legal advice required to implement practical strategies and resolve disputes, and counseling governments on privatization of whole industries and on establishment of regulatory systems under which new private businesses can compete. 

Steven Hall & Partners
Steven Hall & Partners is a totally independent compensation consulting firm, specializing exclusively in the areas of executive compensation, board remuneration and related corporate governance issues.

Stolt-Nielsen Limited
Stolt-Nielsen Limited is a leading global provider of integrated transportation, storage and distribution solutions for chemicals and other bulk-liquid products, delivered through its three largest operating units: Stolt Tankers, Stolthaven Terminals and Stolt Tank Containers.

SUNY Maritime College
SUNY Maritime College educates dynamic leaders for the global maritime industry. Offering 11 undergraduate majors, including five ABET-accredited engineering programs and two master's degree programs, a distinctive hands-on approach to education prepares students for career success.

The Standard Club
The Standard Club is a specialist marine and energy insurer and member of the International Group of Protection and Indemnity clubs owned by its shipowner members and controlled by a board of directors drawn from the membership. The club’s four strategic objectives: to offer a broad range of P&I insurance and other marine & energy covers that represent excellent and sustainable value, to be recognised as providing excellent service through solving members’ problems, to provide first class financial security and to achieve selective growth, consistent with the other objectives

TradeWinds
TradeWinds is shipping’s leading news service. TradeWinds broke the mold for shipping journalism when they launched in 1990 and they still remain the go-to resource for professionals today. Whether it’s tankers, bulkers, boxships or LNG carriers; insurance or casualties; shipbuilding, finance or offshore, it’s all here.

U.S. Coast Guard - AMVER
AMVER, or Automated Mutual-Assistance Vessel Rescue System is a worldwide voluntary reporting system sponsored by the United States Coast Guard. It is a computer-based global ship reporting system used worldwide by search and rescue authorities to arrange for assistance to persons in distress at sea.

U.S. Merchant Marine Academy
United States Merchant Marine Academy is a federal service academy that educates and graduates licensed Merchant Marine officers of exemplary character who serve America’s marine transportation and defense needs in peace and war.

Vanuatu Maritime Services, Ltd. 
Vanuatu Maritime Services, Ltd. operates the central registry office of the Vanuatu International Ship Registry and handles all the details of vessel registration, mortgage recordation, seafarer documentation and all matters relating to safety and proper vessel inspection.

Vedder Price
Vedder Price is an international business-focused law firm serving sophisticated clients of all sizes and industries from offices across the U.S. and in the UK and Asia.

Watson Farley & Williams LLP
Recognized as the law firm that is trusted to deliver pragmatic, innovative solutions even when faced with the most complex of challenges, Watson Farley & Williams LLP is a leading international law firm dedicated to client care, industry focus and investment in its people. Working from offices in major financial centres in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the USA, the firm’s skilled legal experts deliver valued advice on a wide range of corporate and finance transactions and disputes.

Wiggin and Dana LLP
Wiggin and Dana LLP is a full-service law firm that represents clients throughout the country and abroad including publicly traded companies, hospitals and other health care organizations, universities, entrepreneurs and emerging growth companies, real estate developers, financial institutions, museums, charitable organizations and individuals. 

Zeeboat, LLC
Zeeboat is dedicated to furthering the decarbonization of maritime transport with a focus on short sea shipping and involvements in developing fully electric tugboats and educational outreach and research vessels.