James Palairet

James Palairet is an accomplished professional in the shipping industry with significant experience in LNG shipping and brokerage. Since January 2015, James has served as a Partner at Affinity (Shipping) LLP. Prior to this role, James worked at RS Platou as an LNG Shipbroker from July 2010 to December 2014, and at Clarksons from September 2007 to June 2010, where roles included LNG Shipping Advisor and Shipbuilding Analyst. James holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Warwick, completed in 2006, and attended St Paul's School in London from 1997 to 2002.

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Affinity (Shipping) LLP

DRY CARGO Our dry bulk chartering teams in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Santiago, Lima, Montevideo, Singapore and London are cargo-focussed and they fix voyage, COA and time charter business on behalf of their clients with a wide range of ship owners. TANKERS Our established tanker chartering teams serve the industry from London, Houston and Santiago delivering a highly proficient spot chartering service with a prime position in the fuel oil market. The team has close relationships with oil majors, national oil companies, oil traders and major ship owners and operators. Our ethos for operations and post-fixture is simple: these roles are as important to us as the chartering/commercial function, and we continue to apply those same principles of professional ship broking throughout the life of each fixture. VALUATIONS We provide transparent, objective ship valuation service to major owners, banks and other financial institutions at short notice and a daily basis. We provide a retainer service for regular fleet valuations. RESEARCH Our research department combines real time market information with econometric modelling and the latest technology. S & P Our Sale & Purchase team has extensive experience of working with private clients, national shipping companies, major corporates, oil companies, grain houses and institutional investors. We provide a cradle to grave services across all shipping sectors. We operate from London, Singapore and Seoul to give 24-hour coverage of the markets, working for both newbuilding and second-hand buyers. LNG Our young and dynamic LNG team possess wide-ranging experience of spot and term charters working with all major LNG shipowners and charterers. The LNG team has close interaction with the Newbuilding and Sale & Purchase divisions with an unrivalled track record of contracting LNG newbuildings and in the sale and purchase of LNG assets. We maintain up-to-date knowledge and an understanding of new technologies within the LNG sector


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