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Good old fashioned nepotism is the honest answer to that! I graduated uni and went to work in an unrelated field, and got bored. My old man who had worked for an owner as an in house broker set me up an interview with an international shipbroker. I worked with them for 7 years (London, Shanghai & Beijing), then I joined a niche capesize broker in Singapore for a few years after the collapse of the market in 2008/9. I wanted to get into to ship operating, so applied for a position to learn more about the cargo side of commercial shipping, and ended up in a mining company doing my current job.

If you are interested then there are several routes into the commercial side of shipping if you have a passion for it.

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As a charterer with a mining company and timechartering vessels such as those you were aboard, would I correct in saying that noon reports are works of fiction with respect to actual weather conditions? Seems I always have adverse winds/currents which invalidate performance guarantees...

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If you do decide to go down the commercial side of things, get in touch with the Baltic Exchange, they can give guidance about shipbrokers and how to become one. They may also give a list of members (prospective employers) who you can get in touch with. I would say the best place to start would be your last employers while at sea (unless you were placed by shipmanagers).