What Petronav does

Petronav (legal entity Petronav Associates) is a privately held Greek shipbroking company founded in 1993 and headquartered in Athens, with a UK contact number (+44) and a claimed global operating footprint. The firm specializes in ship sale and purchase brokerage, connecting vessel owners with verified ship buyers and cash buyers across international markets for tankers, bulk carriers, container ships, LNG/LPG, Ro-Ro, passenger, and offshore vessels.

The underlying asset is a web-based Vessel Listing Platform (petronav.net) that exposes a filtered catalog of vessels by type, DWT range, year built, and price band from $0.5M to $100M+. Full specifications and pricing are gated behind user login and email verification, and buyers submit purchase enquiries through an online "Request for Purchase" form. Beyond the listing platform, Petronav operates ship demolition brokerage (coordinating cash buyer transactions at demolition hubs in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh), chartering, ship agency, ship delivery, and ship finance support including BBHP schemes for second-hand vessels and loan finance for newbuildings.

The business model is transaction-fee/commission based on individual ship sale and purchase deals; pricing is not publicly disclosed. Go-to-market is sales-led and direct, relying on the website as a top-of-funnel digital storefront, organic search for ship-sale-related queries, and direct email enquiry handled within 24-72 business hours. The company serves ship owners/sellers, ship buyers and cash buyers, and a secondary segment of investors participating in vessel acquisition. Petronav has approximately 19 employees, no disclosed funding, no parent company, no management team listing, and no partnerships beyond its own platform.

Name

Petronav

Legal name

Petronav Associates

Website

https://petronav.net

Company type

Private

Founded year

1993

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Petronav is a Greek privately held shipbroking firm (founded 1993) that operates a web-based vessel listing platform and facilitates ship sale-and-purchase transactions, demolition, and chartering deals between global vessel owners, buyers, and cash buyers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Almyros Municipality

HQ country

Greece

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Ship Sale and Purchase Brokerage: Petronav earns commission or transaction fees by facilitating ship sale and purchase deals between vessel owners and buyers. As shipbrokers, they connect verified vessel opportunities with the right buyers and industry networks, providing professional brokerage support throughout the transaction process.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Petronav is a shipbroking firm that connects vessel owners with verified ship buyers and cash buyers worldwide, specializing in the sale and purchase of commercial vessels including tankers, bulk carriers, container ships, LPG/LNG vessels, Ro-Ro ships, passenger vessels, and offshore ships. Beyond ship sale and purchase brokerage, the firm coordinates ship demolition transactions at major beaching locations in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, and supports chartering, ship agency, ship delivery, newbuilding coordination, and ship finance arrangements.

Product overview

Petronav is a shipbroking company offering a unified platform of shipping services built around its core Ship Sale and Purchase Brokerage. The company provides vessel sale and purchase transactions with professional brokerage support, supplemented by ship demolition services, chartering, ship agency, ship delivery, and ship finance support. The platform includes an online Vessel Listing Platform with search and filter capabilities for buyers to browse commercial vessels including tankers, bulk carriers, container ships, LNG/LPG vessels, Ro-Ro ships, and passenger vessels. The service portfolio is designed to support the full lifecycle of commercial vessel transactions from acquisition through demolition.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Ship Sale and Purchase Brokerage Professional shipbroking service connecting vessel sellers with verified buyers and cash buyers worldwide, covering tankers, bulk carriers, container ships, LPG/LNG vessels, Ro-Ro ships, passenger vessels, and offshore vessels.
• Ship Demolition Services Vessel demolition, ship breaking, and recycling coordination with cash buyer engagement for selling ships at competitive prices at major beaching locations in Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh.
• Chartering Services Chartering services for commercial vessels to facilitate transportation agreements between ship owners and operators.
• Ship Agency Services Agency services supporting vessel operations and transactions throughout the shipping process for ship owners and operators.
• Ship Delivery Services Professional support for vessel delivery operations and logistics management accompanying a sale transaction.
• Ship Finance Support Financial support including BBHP schemes for second-hand vessel purchases and loan finance for new building projects.
• Newbuilding Opportunities Support and guidance for new vessel construction projects and shipyard coordination for buyers pursuing newbuilding orders.
• Vessel Listing Platform Online platform with filtered vessel search capabilities, including DWT range, year built, price range, and vessel type filters, enabling registered and email-verified users to access full vessel specifications and pricing.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Allied Shipbrokers: Allied Shipbrokers is a Greek-based shipbroker offering sale and purchase, chartering, and newbuilding services — a directly comparable Greek-headquartered S&P peer competing with Petronav in the same home market.
• Howe Robinson Partners: Howe Robinson is a mid-sized international shipbroker providing sale and purchase and chartering services across tankers, dry cargo, containers and offshore — a similarly sized direct competitor to Petronav in commercial vessel S&P.
• Banchero Costa & C. Banchero Costa is a long-established independent shipbroker focused on sale and purchase and chartering across tankers, bulkers and offshore, with a similar relationship-driven model and comparable size to Petronav.
• Barry Rogliano Salles (BRS): BRS is an international shipbroking group providing sale and purchase, newbuilding, chartering, and yacht services — a similarly diversified independent S&P competitor with strong European coverage comparable to Petronav.

Broad incumbents

• Fearnleys: Fearnleys is a long-established Norwegian shipbroker offering sale and purchase, newbuilding, chartering and ship finance — highly comparable to Petronav's diversified maritime service portfolio, particularly its newbuilding and finance support.
• Maersk Broker: Maersk Broker is the in-house shipbroker for the Maersk group, providing global S&P, chartering, and operations services across most commercial vessel segments — directly comparable to Petronav's full-service maritime offering but with significant scale advantages.
• Braemar ACM Shipbroking: Braemar ACM is a leading London-based shipbroker covering tankers, dry cargo, and offshore S&P, chartering and research — a direct large-scale competitor to Petronav in global ship sale and purchase brokerage.
• Clarkson PLC (Clarksons): Clarksons is the world's largest shipbroking group, offering integrated sale and purchase, chartering, research, and financial services across all major vessel segments — the same S&P brokerage model Petronav operates, but at vastly greater scale and with proprietary data products.
• Simpson Spence Young (SSY): SSY is one of the largest independent shipbroking groups worldwide, providing sale and purchase, chartering, and research services across tankers, bulkers, containers and offshore — overlapping almost entirely with Petronav's S&P service offering.

Emerging players

• Advanced Shipping & Trading: Advanced Shipping & Trading is a niche shipbroker and demolition specialist providing S&P and ship recycling brokerage — comparable to Petronav's demolition and cash-buyer services for smaller and end-of-life vessels.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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