About
About Eight Ships
An independent shipping advisory, founded by shipowners.
Our story
Founded in Hong Kong, August 1998
Eight Ships Limited was founded in Hong Kong in August 1998 on one principle: shipowners deserve advisors who truly understand their challenges.
We know the realities of compliance, cost pressure and the urgency of keeping vessels trading, because we have faced these ourselves. We bring technical knowledge together with practical, risk-aware advice, so our clients can make confident decisions that hold up in the real world.
Our guidance is shaped by experience, not theory, and our clients come back for two reasons: trust and experience.
We work in English, Danish, Cantonese and Putonghua.
Perspective
Why owners make better advisors
- 01
We have carried the risk
We have owned ships, so we know what a decision costs when it goes wrong, and we advise accordingly.
- 02
We see the whole vessel
We look at a ship as a working asset: its trade, its condition and the people who must run it.
- 03
We speak every side
Owners, lenders and investors each need something different. We understand all three positions.
Team
Our Chairman
Jens-Erik Olsen
Chairman
Per Aspera ad Astra
Jens-Erik began his career in shipping in 1974 as an A.P. Møller–Maersk apprentice. His shipbroking began in 1976, when he was assigned to the Baltic Exchange in London. He became a managerial shipowner in 1988, and those years in ownership gave him a first-hand understanding of what managing vessels demands: downtime, compliance, cost pressure, and investments that hold up in the real world.
With the establishment of Eight Ships, owning became a reality in 2000, when a series of repossessions inspired the ordering of a series of newbuildings.
Hong Kong · Since 1998