The Rickmers Group was an international provider of services for the maritime industry, a vessel owner and an ocean freight carrier.

In the Maritime Services business segment the Group provides ship management services, whereas in the Rickmers-Linie business segment the Rickmers Group operated as a shipping line for breakbulk, heavy lift and project cargo, and additionally offered individual voyages.

Bertram R. C. Rickmers, who left the family firm in 1982, went into business in Hamburg as shipbroker and shipowner with establishing his first company (MCC Marine Contracting and Consulting).

Speakers were historian and television presenter Niall Ferguson, Kishore Mahbubani, who was listed by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines as one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world, Nouriel Roubini, who was named as one of the “10 new gurus you should know” by the Fortune magazine, and Nassim Nicholas Taleb, whose book “The Black Swan, The Impact of the Highly Improbable” was the top non-fiction seller on Amazon in 2007.

The panel was moderated by Martin Wolf, associate editor and chief economics commentator at the Financial Times.

[4] In the year 2015 Rickmers Group parent Rickmes Holding changed its legal form from limited partnership to stock corporation.