Vectra Maritime advises shipowners and investors on tanker, dry bulk and container acquisitions, capital structure and investment decisions.
Dimitris Filippas · Principal’s career experience
Principal’s career experience, including previous roles — not Vectra Maritime firm totals. Transaction figures include overlapping career experience and must not be summed.
Direct access to Vectra’s principals, combining Dimitris Filippas’s CFO and maritime investment banking experience and Jordan Pittas’s dry-cargo chartering background with asset-specific valuation, financing comparisons and cash-flow scenarios.
Vessel valuation, acquisition due diligence, sourcing and negotiation across tankers from MR2 to VLCC, dry bulk carriers from Handysize to Capesize and feeder/midsize container vessels.
Arranging and comparing financing — bank debt, sale-and-leaseback, mezzanine and hybrid structures — with capital structure and covenant analysis for tanker, dry bulk and container assets.
DCF modelling and sensitivity analysis of freight earnings, financing costs and residual values, with tanker, dry bulk and container benchmarks relevant to the mandate.
Vectra Maritime helps shipowners and investors source and structure bank debt, sale-and-leaseback and alternative financing for tanker, dry bulk and container investments.
Vectra Maritime acts as arranger and adviser. We do not lend our own capital; financing terms are agreed with the financing parties.
See how structure choice changes owner equity, cash headroom and maturity exposure in an illustrative example. View sample comparison
Work directly with the principals on the scope and decision: assess the vessel, compare financing alternatives and test earnings, costs and residual values.
A clear process, tailored to your vessel acquisition or financing mandate.
We start with a confidential discussion of the vessel or project, your objectives, financing needs and timing, then agree the scope of work.
We assess the vessel and investment case, compare financing structures, and test earnings, costs and residual values to inform your decision.
We support the agreed acquisition or financing process, including coordination with relevant counterparties and advisers as required.
Vectra Maritime is led by two principals, combining shipping finance and commercial chartering perspectives.
A senior finance executive and maritime investment banker with 20+ years in shipping and capital markets.
His career spans CFO and advisory roles, equity and debt raising, fleet refinancing, restructurings, investor relations and financial reporting across the US, Europe and Asia.
MSc Shipping Business with distinction, LMU London. BSc Banking & International Finance, Bayes (formerly Cass).
Jordan Pittas is Co-Partner & Principal at Vectra Maritime. His background includes dry-cargo chartering at Advanced Shipping & Trading S.A., bringing a commercial shipping perspective to the firm’s vessel-focused advisory work.
He joins Dimitris Filippas in Vectra’s leadership, combining market and vessel-employment perspectives with the firm’s acquisition and financing analysis.
Earlier FreeSeas roles included Deputy CFO and Interim CFO.
Transactions completed by Dimitris Filippas in roles at previous employers — not Vectra Maritime mandates.
Dated views of dry bulk, tanker earnings, the oil balance and feeder/midsize containers.
Each card carries its own source date. Benchmarks are dated assessments, not live prices. Edition reviewed 11 november 2026 · containers supplement.
Capesize BCI 182 5TC closed at $39,395/day on 6 November. Panamax/Kamsarmax sentiment firmed on improving demand and tighter tonnage; Supramax rates were under pressure in a holiday-thinned week, and Handysize was mixed by region.
Source: Baltic Exchange · Dated weekly assessment
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Read insightMR / MR2 · 50,000 dwt standard vessel. Published 6 November round-trip TCE endpoints: TC2_37 (37,000 tonnes cargo, ARA/US Atlantic Coast) $13,600/day; TC14 (38,000 tonnes cargo, US Gulf/UK–Continent) $60,800/day. TD3C eased, and TD20 is an approximation compared with a prior lower bound, so no exact change is shown.
Dated Baltic round-trip benchmarks — not live offers or actual vessel earnings.
Source: Baltic Exchange · Dated weekly assessment
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Read insightIEA monthly background, published 14 October and rechecked 9 November: September supply 102.3 mb/d, up 2.5 mb/d month on month. Annual demand and supply remain forecasts, not new weekly observations.
Source: IEA · Public highlights; demand outlook is a forecast
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Read insight6 November vs 30 October: 1,100 TEU geared $18,500/day; 1,700 TEU geared $35,000/day; 2,500 TEU geared $47,000/day; 4,250 TEU gearless $61,000/day. All four 6–12-month charter assessments are unchanged (0.0%).
Source: Harper Petersen HARPEX · 6–12-month charter assessment
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Read insightDirect line to the principals. Confidential, mandate-driven conversations.
Enquiries sent through the form reach the firm’s existing contact address, df@vectramaritime.com.
