COMPETENCE AND EXPERIENCE

HARPER PETERSEN provides a comprehensive and wide variety of shipbroking services to the maritime industry with its main focus on the container shipping market.

Locations

Our headquarter is in Hamburg and our other locations include Singapore, Shanghai and the Netherlands.

Fleet

You can view our complete fleet list

Careers

Come and join us- we are always looking for new colleagues

WHAT WE DO

HARPER PETERSEN offers a wide range of shipbroking and commercial chartering services of container vessels of all different sizes. We are located in Hamburg, Germany, with branch offices in Shanghai, The Netherlands and Singapore.

HARPER PETERSEN was founded in 1943 in the UK, and in the 1980's went on to become one of the leading chartering agents for P & O Containers, Nedlloyd, Safmarine, United Arab Shipping, CSAV, CP Ships group, Crowley and Harrisons.

In 2003 Hamburg based ER Schifffahrt and Rickmers Reederei became joint shareholders of HARPER PETERSEN and assumed full ownership in 2004.

In September 2004 a subsidiary company, Eight Dragons Ship Brokers Ltd, was founded in Hong Kong together with a representative office in Shanghai in order to expand business in Asia. This company was renamed Harper Petersen & Co. (Asia) Ltd. in August 2007 in order to give a common brand to our business activities worldwide.

CONTCHART was founded in 2012 by Thien & Heyenga. In autumn 2012, MPC Münchmeyer Petersen Steamship, Ahrenkiel Shipmanagement and GB Shipping & Chartering became new partners of the joint venture.

In 2015 HARPER PETERSEN started a bulk desk with the focus to look exclusively after the bulk carriers of its shareholders and in 2016 the company expanded its business activities in Asia by establishing Harper Petersen & Co. Pte. Ltd., Singapore.

In 2016 CONTCHART became a fully owned subsidiary of MPC Capital. End of 2018 CONTCHART opened branch offices in the Netherlands and Singapore.

In 2018, HARPER PETERSEN was sold to Bremen-based Zeaborn Group, which in 2019 joined forces with MPC Capital, merging their activities in shipbroking, chartering and commercial management in a newly found joint venture and under the traditional shipbroker brand HARPER PETERSEN .

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Fixtures in 2019

Philosophy

HOW WE WORK

The joint venture between CONTCHART and HARPER PETERSEN was formed to gain a wider commercial presence in the fast changing and challenging world of today’s shipping industry. By bringing together the competence and experience of the Zeaborn and MPC groups and their dedicated staff, HARPER PETERSEN was able to strengthen its global market presence and to further enhance the efficiency of its working processes. The diverse fleet of vessels represented enables HARPER PETERSEN to offer its clients a quality-oriented, personalized and independent service. It is our vision to be your first class partner with a deep market insight and an overall coverage who conducts a close personal and reliable network within the maritime industry.

Vision
HARPER PETERSEN – a leading partner in shipbroking services and commercial vessel management providing opportunities in worldwide maritime trade.

Mission
Through understanding our customers’ business & a differentiated approach we deliver personal, reliable, efficient & flexible quality services.

Service

THE HARPEX

The HARPEX (HARPER PETERSEN Charter Rates Index) is published by HARPER PETERSEN and reflects the worldwide price development on the charter market for container ships. The HARPEX was originally developed in 2004 and adjusted in 2011 in response to clients and users. The Charter Rates are assessed weekly basis 6-12 months fixtures and actual business concluded in the market each week.

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Service

WE CUSTOMIZE FOR OUR CLIENTS

Our services include chartering, operations and accounting. All these services are especially customized for our clients.

Chartering is responsible for maintaining and advancing good working relationship with all market participants such as owners, charterers and brokers, identifying market trends and opportunities, aligning ships and suitable requirements on the charter market, negotiating and concluding the charter contracts after a thorough market research and analysis, marketing the fleet and securing best possible fleet employment under both short and long-term contracts.

CHARTERING

OPERATIONS

Operations is responsible for the day-to-day operational business: maintaining the communication between Owners & Charterers during and after any charter, instructions to vessel's command related to employment, coordination of delivery & re-delivery from charterers, the coordination of vessel repair/ maintenance with charterers and technical managers, the phase out/in before and after off-hire with charterers and the handling of claims, casualty coordination, complaints and disputes (e.g. vessel performance).

Marine accounting is responsible for all accounting matters in relation to a charter party: Invoicing of hire and further services to the charterers in the name of the owner according to the underlying charter party terms. The service includes issuance and posting of hire statements, bunker settlements and charterers' expenses, monitoring of incoming payments and dunning process as well as the registration and posting of owners expenses.

MARINE ACCOUNTING

Fleet

WE MANAGE A BROAD FLEET

The fleet list of HARPER PETERSEN comprises all container ships and their detailed specifications.

FLEETLIST

WORK WITH PROFESSIONALS

Each member of our team is an expert in his or her field and together we make sure that our customers get the best service. Contact our experts directly, we are happy to support.