Joint chairman of Howe Robinson since 1994 and appointed Baltic Exchange chairman in July 2003, Peter Kerr-Dineen has been working in the shipping industry for 29 years.

Educated at Cambridge University and the holder of a degree in Archaelogy and Anthropology, he launched his career in shipping as a management trainee with Ocean Transport and Trading in 1975 and began by working for Elder Dempster, where he focused on the West Africa trades.

He joined Howe Robinson in 1976, working the China desk. Howe Robinson is one of the largest privately-owned dry-cargo and containership broking houses in the world, with some 50 brokers based in the London head office and branch offices in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Shanghai.