ContinentalShip Brokers · Est. 1902
Est. 1902 · Three Generations at Sea

Continental Ship Brokers

For over a century we have charted the passage between vessel and owner — where steel meets the sea, and trust meets the horizon.

≈500 Vessels Brokered 3 Generations 1 Family · One Word
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Our Heritage

A Century Written in Saltwater

Three generations. One unbroken wake. Since 1902, the Continental name has stood at the meeting point of commerce and the open ocean — quietly brokering the journeys of ships from one steward to the next.

Nearly five hundred vessels have changed hands beneath our flag, each transaction a story of trust kept, of fortunes guided safely to port. We do not merely close deals; we honour a lineage of seamanship passed from father to son to son — a craft refined by tide and by time.

From the age of steam to the present day.
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What Guides Us

Our Vision & Mission

IVision

To remain the steady compass of maritime trade — bridging continents, generations, and the people who move the world by sea.

IIMission

To broker every vessel with the discretion of a confidant and the precision of a navigator; to protect our clients’ interests as though they bore our own family’s name; and to carry a century-old promise into every horizon still to come.

What We Do

Services Charted by Experience

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Sale & Purchase

Guiding vessels from one steward to the next with discretion, diligence, and an unerring sense of timing.

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Newbuilding & Resale

From the first line drawn on the shipyard’s drafting table to the day she first takes the water.

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Valuation & Market Intelligence

Reading the currents of the market so that our clients always sail with the wind at their back.

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Chartering & Advisory

Matching tonnage to trade, and counsel to ambition, across every sea lane that matters.

Why Continental

The Compass We Steer By

Integrity

A word given is a word kept — for well over a hundred years.

Discretion

The most important negotiations are the ones no one ever hears about.

Heritage

Knowledge that cannot be taught — only inherited.

Global Reach

From the Aegean to every ocean — a network without horizon.

Our Wake

Vessels We Have Guided Home

A glimpse of the steel that has passed through our hands.

Get in Touch

Set Your Course With Us

Whether you seek to buy, to sell, or simply to take the measure of the market, our door — like the harbour — is always open.

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