Freshly merged Columbia Marlow Shipmanagement is looking to drive the digital agenda in the shipmanagement market, chief executive Mark O'Neil says.

In March this year, with the merger in the midst of the regulatory approval process, the then separate companies signed a new partnership deal with Lufthansa Industry Solutions.

O’Neil says the merger has given the company “financial clout that small companies simply do not have” to invest in training and digitalisation.