0 a company that makes arrangements between ship owners and companies to transport their goods by ship, getting the best prices, arranging insurance, etc.: --
In some cases a charterer may own cargo and employ a shipbroker to find a ship to deliver the cargo for a certain price, called freight rate.
In 1915, she was chartered to a shipbroker.
There is marine insurance, there is acting as a shipbroker, moneylending, the ownership of docks and railways, general merchant's business, co-operative societies, ship chandlery and soap manufacture.
Shipbrokers are hopeful that the authorities will continue their subsidies policy during this transitional period now that signs can be seen of a balance between building capacity and increasing demand.
In these circumstances there is no position for the shipbroker in respect of this part of our work.
He insures his ships outside and goes to an outside shipbroker.
Shipbrokers and builders know that there will be an upturn in the market.
A shipowner in one case, for instance, may carry on business as a shipbroker and as an insurance broker for himself.