Braemar Shipping Services chief executive James Gundy has certainly been busy since taking on the top job at the beginning of this year.

The London-listed shipbroking and financial services group made a raft of announcements in its trading update on Tuesday.

These included the integration of the finance arm Braemar Naves into the broking division and a new alliance between its Cory Brothers logistics business with Vertom UCS Holding of the Netherlands.