Lomar Shipping chief executive Achim Boehme has died.

He died peacefully on 25 July at his home in Bremen, the containership owner said. He was 56.

Boehme had for the past year waged a brave battle with cancer, supported by his wife Helke and four children, the company said.

His colleagues would miss his "immense wisdom, his charm and his ever-present dry wit", Lomar chief operating officer Nicholas Georgiou said.