Dibner
Maritime Associates LLC ("DMA") is a management consulting firm
providing highly effective and objective counsel and advice to C-level
management on matters pertaining to virtually all sectors of the maritime
industry. The practice is directed by
Brent Dibner, who personally provides clients with strategies, recommendations,
and tactics that are based upon experience and highly rigorous market
analysis. The analysis typically
considers trade, customers, competitors, assets employed, operations and
financial positioning. Clients include vessel owners and operators,
cargo shippers, traders, terminals, shipbuilder, repairers, equipment suppliers
and a wide range of financial institutions and investors.
Mr. Dibner brings more than 40 years of continuous
involvement in the maritime industry, having commenced engineering studies and
summer shipyard apprenticeships at age 17. An MBA originally trained as a naval architect and marine engineer, he
was a senior partner directing much of the maritime management consulting
practice of Temple, Barker & Sloane (later Mercer Management Consulting)
for twenty-five years, after which he founded DMA in 2002. He is supported by experienced consultants
and analysts with more than 100 years of experience in a range of areas.
