Columbia Shipmanagement boss Mark O’Neil believes the Covid-19 crisis is a time to forge new working relationships that could last beyond the pandemic.

In March, Columbia revealed it was working with rival shipmanagers to help one another with providing services where they each had capability.

This involved Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement, Synergy and Peter Dohle initially, with ADNOC and the d’Amico group following.