Jens-Michael Arndt, Managing Partner of H Vogemann in Hamburg, started his shipping career in 1983 with a London based ship broker. He graduated from Technische Universität Berlin as “Diplom-Wirtschaftsingenieur”, the German equivalent of MBA with a thesis on freight forwards and MEng with a thesis on bulkcarrier speed/consumption valuation. He joined Vogemann 2003 with extensive financial and operational shipping experience from different positions in the German shipping industry such as dry cargo operation with Hamburg based operator Coreck Maritime and container liner services with Hamburg-Süd. He has been a managing partner at H Vogemann since 2008.