Review-Poten & Partners Independent shipbroker
30 March 2025 - Written by ML
Overview
This report examines the employment profile for the independent ship broker Poten & Partners(POTEN, 2025). The company is a member and panelist of the Baltic Exchange(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 Location Sector
## 1 Don Wessel New York Asphalt and Crude Research & Consulting
## 2 John P Detty New York Asphalt and Crude Research & Consulting
## 3 Seyma Tul New York Asphalt and Crude Research & Consulting
## 4 Ashrafe Hanifar Singapore Business Intelligence
## 5 Ben Gonzalez Houston Business Intelligence
## 6 Connie B Sipp Houston Business IntelligenceStep 2: Location Count
- Count the number of unique individuals per location:
## # A tibble: 11 × 2
## Location Count
## <chr> <int>
## 1 London 59
## 2 Houston 26
## 3 Singapore 22
## 4 New York 20
## 5 Perth 10
## 6 Long Island 8
## 7 Athens 4
## 8 Guangzhou 4
## 9 Connecticut 3
## 10 California 2
## 11 Dubai 2Insight: London dominates with 59 employees, followed by Houston with 26, Singapore with 22, and, New York with 20 and others.
Step 3: Sector Count
- Count the number of sectors covered by individuals (in some cases the same individual covers more than one sector):
## # A tibble: 20 × 2
## Sector Count
## <chr> <int>
## 1 LNG & Natural Gas Consulting 26
## 2 Tanker Chartering - Dirty 19
## 3 Business Intelligence 17
## 4 Finance & Administration 17
## 5 LPG Brokerage 15
## 6 Period Charter and Sale & Purchase Brokerage 10
## 7 LNG Chartering 9
## 8 Tanker Operations 7
## 9 LPG Operations 6
## 10 LNG Financial 5
## 11 Hydrogen, Ammonia & Methanol Advisory 4
## 12 LPG Research & Consulting 4
## 13 Naphtha and Clean Condensate Brokerage 4
## 14 Asphalt and Crude Research & Consulting 3
## 15 Information Technology 3
## 16 Tanker Chartering - US Flag 3
## 17 LNG Commercial 2
## 18 Merlin Advisors 2
## 19 Project Development & Finance 2
## 20 Tanker Chartering - Clean 2Insight: “LNG” (26 employees),“LPG” (25), Tanker Chartering - Dirty (19) and others. Business intelligence at 17.
Step 4: Cross-Tabulate
- Create a cross-table to see how sectors distribute across locations:
## Location
## Sector Athens California Connecticut
## Asphalt and Crude Research & Consulting 0 0 0
## Business Intelligence 0 0 0
## Finance & Administration 0 0 0
## Hydrogen, Ammonia & Methanol Advisory 0 0 0
## Information Technology 0 0 0
## LNG & Natural Gas Consulting 0 0 0
## LNG Chartering 0 0 0
## LNG Commercial 0 0 0
## LNG Financial 0 0 0
## LPG Brokerage 0 0 0
## LPG Operations 0 0 0
## LPG Research & Consulting 0 0 0
## Merlin Advisors 0 0 0
## Naphtha and Clean Condensate Brokerage 4 0 0
## Period Charter and Sale & Purchase Brokerage 0 0 1
## Project Development & Finance 0 0 0
## Tanker Chartering - Clean 0 0 1
## Tanker Chartering - Dirty 0 0 1
## Tanker Chartering - US Flag 0 2 0
## Tanker Operations 0 0 0
## Location
## Sector Dubai Guangzhou Houston London
## Asphalt and Crude Research & Consulting 0 0 0 0
## Business Intelligence 0 0 10 3
## Finance & Administration 0 0 1 6
## Hydrogen, Ammonia & Methanol Advisory 0 0 0 4
## Information Technology 0 0 0 1
## LNG & Natural Gas Consulting 0 0 4 6
## LNG Chartering 0 0 0 6
## LNG Commercial 0 0 0 1
## LNG Financial 0 0 0 4
## LPG Brokerage 0 0 2 6
## LPG Operations 0 3 1 2
## LPG Research & Consulting 0 1 1 0
## Merlin Advisors 0 0 0 2
## Naphtha and Clean Condensate Brokerage 0 0 0 0
## Period Charter and Sale & Purchase Brokerage 0 0 1 8
## Project Development & Finance 0 0 0 0
## Tanker Chartering - Clean 0 0 0 0
## Tanker Chartering - Dirty 2 0 6 8
## Tanker Chartering - US Flag 0 0 0 0
## Tanker Operations 0 0 0 2
## Location
## Sector Long Island New York Perth
## Asphalt and Crude Research & Consulting 0 3 0
## Business Intelligence 0 0 0
## Finance & Administration 2 6 0
## Hydrogen, Ammonia & Methanol Advisory 0 0 0
## Information Technology 1 1 0
## LNG & Natural Gas Consulting 0 3 9
## LNG Chartering 0 1 0
## LNG Commercial 0 0 1
## LNG Financial 0 1 0
## LPG Brokerage 0 0 0
## LPG Operations 0 0 0
## LPG Research & Consulting 0 0 0
## Merlin Advisors 0 0 0
## Naphtha and Clean Condensate Brokerage 0 0 0
## Period Charter and Sale & Purchase Brokerage 0 0 0
## Project Development & Finance 0 2 0
## Tanker Chartering - Clean 1 0 0
## Tanker Chartering - Dirty 1 0 0
## Tanker Chartering - US Flag 0 1 0
## Tanker Operations 3 2 0
## Location
## Sector Singapore
## Asphalt and Crude Research & Consulting 0
## Business Intelligence 4
## Finance & Administration 2
## Hydrogen, Ammonia & Methanol Advisory 0
## Information Technology 0
## LNG & Natural Gas Consulting 4
## LNG Chartering 2
## LNG Commercial 0
## LNG Financial 0
## LPG Brokerage 7
## LPG Operations 0
## LPG Research & Consulting 2
## Merlin Advisors 0
## Naphtha and Clean Condensate Brokerage 0
## Period Charter and Sale & Purchase Brokerage 0
## Project Development & Finance 0
## Tanker Chartering - Clean 0
## Tanker Chartering - Dirty 1
## Tanker Chartering - US Flag 0
## Tanker Operations 0Insight:
“LPG” activity is concentrated in Singapore (9), London (8), Guangzhou (4) and Houston.
London and Houston have the broadest mix of sectors (e.g. particular focus on “LPG”, “Tanker”, “Period Charter”).
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, Singapore and Houston).
Step 6: LPG focus
- List people in LPG and Products sectors:
| Name | Sector | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Lynn Wang | LPG Operations | Guangzhou |
| Mary Ma | LPG Operations | Guangzhou |
| Shirley Chen | LPG Operations | Guangzhou |
| Lily Luo | LPG Research & Consulting | Guangzhou |
| Kim Westrup | LPG Brokerage | Houston |
| Lasse Schleemann | LPG Brokerage | Houston |
| Sarah Rose | LPG Operations | Houston |
| Zahid Afzal | LPG Research & Consulting | Houston |
| Evita Lolossidis | LPG Brokerage | London |
| Frederick Dixon | LPG Brokerage | London |
| James Rivers | LPG Brokerage | London |
| Myrsini Fergadioti | LPG Brokerage | London |
| Sebastian Jaques | LPG Brokerage | London |
| William Micklethwait | LPG Brokerage | London |
| Anjula Nathan | LPG Operations | London |
| Vasileios Sotiroudis | LPG Operations | London |
| Dong Wuk Lee | LPG Brokerage | Singapore |
| Hiroaki Kakeya | LPG Brokerage | Singapore |
| Oliver Andersen | LPG Brokerage | Singapore |
| Rebecca Huang | LPG Brokerage | Singapore |
| Shannon Peh | LPG Brokerage | Singapore |
| Torben Pedersen | LPG Brokerage | Singapore |
| Won Sang Lee | LPG Brokerage | Singapore |
| Ramthan Hussain | LPG Research & Consulting | Singapore |
| Shantanu Bhushan Kumar | LPG Research & Consulting | Singapore |
| Location | LPG Operations | LPG Research & Consulting | LPG Brokerage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guangzhou | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Houston | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| London | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| Singapore | 0 | 2 | 7 |
Insight: There are 25 employees that are tasked with LPG Brokers, Operations or Research and Consulting - largely Singapore and London based.
Conclusion
Key Patterns Identified
- Geographic Concentration: London, Houston, Singapore, New York are hubs. Feels like most US centric shipbroker panelists.
- Sector Distribution: “LPG”, “LNG” significant.
- LPG presence - significant weighting Brokers (15), Operations (6), Research (4)
References
Baltic Exchange. (2025). Panellists. Baltic Exchange. https://www.balticexchange.com/en/data-services/panellists.html
POTEN. (2025). Find a broker. POTEN. https://info.poten.com/directory/EmployeeSearch.aspx