After dipping its toes in ship investment, Columbia Shipmanagment is now focusing on third-party management and its expansion drive has seen the establishment of a cruise shipmanagement company.

The opening of Columbia Cruise Services brings the Schoeller family-controlled management company’s latest venture back to its Hamburg roots.

Heading up the newly formed company is chief executive Olaf Groeger who tried to develop passengership management out of a cruiseship group in Cyprus but was told by operators that he needed to be more focused.

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