Review-Gibson Independent shipbroker
30 March 2025 - Written by ML
Overview
This report examines exmployment profile for the independent shipbroker Gibson(Gibsons, 2025). The company is listed on the Baltic Exchange as being a member(Baltic Exchange, 2025).
Report method
Extracted employee details from the website and performed basic analysis to understand how the company structures its staffing.
Investigative approach
Step 1: Load the Data
- Read first few records from the data file of employee by name, sector and location.
## Name Sector Location
## 1 Aaron Mata LPG Coasters / Petrochemicals Singapore
## 2 Adelene Low Dry Cargo Capesize Dry Ops Singapore
## 3 Afico Lee LPG Product Broking Singapore
## 4 Alastair Fowler LPG Shipbroking London
## 5 Alex Piccolo Dry Cargo Capesize Singapore
## 6 Alex Ward LPG Coasters / Petrochemicals LondonStep 2: Location Count
- Count the number of individuals per location:
## # A tibble: 8 × 2
## Location Count
## <chr> <int>
## 1 London 87
## 2 Singapore 43
## 3 Mumbai 9
## 4 Houston 6
## 5 Dubai 3
## 6 Hong Kong 3
## 7 Athens 1
## 8 Hamburg 1Insight: London dominates with 87 employees, followed by Singapore with 43, Mumbai with 9 and fewer in Other locations.
Step 3: Sector Count
- Count the number of individuals per sector:
## # A tibble: 26 × 2
## Sector Count
## <chr> <int>
## 1 Crude Tankers 18
## 2 Clean Tankers 13
## 3 Sale & Purchase 11
## 4 Specialised 11
## 5 LPG Shipbroking 10
## 6 Dry Cargo Capesize 9
## 7 LPG Coasters / Petrochemicals 9
## 8 Tanker Ops 9
## 9 Accounts 8
## 10 Projects & Time Charter 8
## # ℹ 16 more rowsInsight: “Crude Tankers” (18 employees), Clean Tankers (13). LPG is shown as having 34 people in 6 sectors (shipbroking, coasters/Petrochemicals, operations, product broking, commercial analysis).
Step 4: Cross-Tabulate
- Create a cross-table to see how sectors distribute across locations:
## Location
## Sector Athens Dubai Hamburg Hong Kong Houston London
## Accounts 0 0 0 0 0 6
## Broker Support 0 0 0 1 0 2
## Clean Tankers 0 0 0 0 2 9
## Consultancy & Research 0 0 0 0 0 5
## Crude Tankers 0 2 0 0 2 11
## Dry Cargo 0 0 0 1 0 0
## Dry Cargo Capesize 0 1 0 1 0 2
## Dry Cargo Capesize Dry Ops 0 0 0 0 0 0
## Executive Assistant 0 0 0 0 0 1
## Fuel Oil Tankers 0 0 0 0 0 4
## HR 0 0 0 0 0 1
## IT 0 0 0 0 0 1
## LNG 0 0 0 0 0 3
## LPG 0 0 0 0 0 0
## LPG Coasters / Petrochemicals 0 0 0 0 0 5
## LPG Commercial Analysis 0 0 0 0 0 0
## LPG Operations 0 0 0 0 0 3
## LPG Product Broking 0 0 0 0 0 3
## LPG Shipbroking 0 0 0 0 0 7
## Projects & Time Charter 0 0 0 0 0 6
## Sale & Purchase 1 0 1 0 0 6
## Specialised 0 0 0 0 0 6
## Specialised Ops 0 0 0 0 0 0
## Tanker Claims 0 0 0 0 0 2
## Tanker Ops 0 0 0 0 2 4
## Tankers 0 0 0 0 0 0
## Location
## Sector Mumbai Singapore
## Accounts 0 2
## Broker Support 0 1
## Clean Tankers 0 2
## Consultancy & Research 1 0
## Crude Tankers 1 2
## Dry Cargo 0 0
## Dry Cargo Capesize 0 5
## Dry Cargo Capesize Dry Ops 0 2
## Executive Assistant 0 0
## Fuel Oil Tankers 0 0
## HR 0 0
## IT 0 1
## LNG 0 1
## LPG 3 0
## LPG Coasters / Petrochemicals 0 4
## LPG Commercial Analysis 0 1
## LPG Operations 0 3
## LPG Product Broking 0 2
## LPG Shipbroking 1 2
## Projects & Time Charter 0 2
## Sale & Purchase 3 0
## Specialised 0 5
## Specialised Ops 0 2
## Tanker Claims 0 2
## Tanker Ops 0 3
## Tankers 0 1Insight:
“LPG” is concentrated in London (18) and Singapore (12) and Mumbai (1)/
London has the broadest mix of sectors (e.g. particular focus on “Crude”, “LPG broking”), while Singapore focus is on “specialized”, “Dry Cargo”, and, in LPG on “Coasters and Petrochemicals”.
Step 5: Visualizations
- Visualize location counts and the sector-location relationship:
Insight from Visuals:
The bar plot highlights the central focus in London.
The heatmap shows clusters (e.g., broad mix of sectors in London in London with specialist sectors elsewhere).
Step 6: LPG and Products people
- List people in LPG and Products sectors:
| Name | Sector | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Alex Ward | LPG Coasters / Petrochemicals | London |
| Charlie Jones | LPG Coasters / Petrochemicals | London |
| Daniel Ward | LPG Coasters / Petrochemicals | London |
| Harry Whittall-Brown | LPG Coasters / Petrochemicals | London |
| William Curry | LPG Coasters / Petrochemicals | London |
| Karan Ramchandani | LPG Operations | London |
| Matthew Chiffi | LPG Operations | London |
| Stelios Sotiriadis | LPG Operations | London |
| Matthew Freedman | LPG Product Broking | London |
| Rupert Green | LPG Product Broking | London |
| Tom Carlisle | LPG Product Broking | London |
| Alastair Fowler | LPG Shipbroking | London |
| Craig Lockwood | LPG Shipbroking | London |
| Harry Greene | LPG Shipbroking | London |
| Harry Palmer | LPG Shipbroking | London |
| James Allan | LPG Shipbroking | London |
| Macy Dye | LPG Shipbroking | London |
| Neil Pickering | LPG Shipbroking | London |
| Lalit Parkar | LPG | Mumbai |
| Prathamesh Desai | LPG | Mumbai |
| Utkarsh Srivastava | LPG | Mumbai |
| Pari Prakash | LPG Shipbroking | Mumbai |
| Aaron Mata | LPG Coasters / Petrochemicals | Singapore |
| Alvin Yin | LPG Coasters / Petrochemicals | Singapore |
| Eunice Cheang | LPG Coasters / Petrochemicals | Singapore |
| Tony Wan | LPG Coasters / Petrochemicals | Singapore |
| PeiQi Chen | LPG Commercial Analysis | Singapore |
| Jeremy Tang | LPG Operations | Singapore |
| Patrick Ong | LPG Operations | Singapore |
| Sean Tan | LPG Operations | Singapore |
| Afico Lee | LPG Product Broking | Singapore |
| Tom Olney | LPG Product Broking | Singapore |
| Edward Mah | LPG Shipbroking | Singapore |
| Ryan Mann | LPG Shipbroking | Singapore |
Insight: The LPG teams together consist of 34 employees.
Conclusion
Key Patterns Identified
- Geographic Concentration: London is the hub (87 employees). The footprint is tighter than at Affinity.
- Sector Distribution: “Tankers” dominate. But for Gibson LPG employees are more numerous than at Affinity.