The word 'shipowner' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a noun that refers to a person or company that owns one or more ships. Example: The shipowner was responsible for the maintenance and operation of the cargo vessel.
For the shipowner, the cargo spoils and the ship goes unused.
A London art consultant who has met lots of them, Peyton Skipwith, tells a story about Stavros Niarchos, a Greek shipowner, who saw an exhibition of orientalist art and resolved to buy the lot.
Whether or not this is true, the world is slowly waking up to the dangers of allowing shipping to operate under the cloak offered by FOCs: no questions asked so long as the shipowner pays registration fees and tonnage taxes.
According to Greg Zikos, chief financial officer of Costamare, a Greek shipowner which rents its vessels to container lines, they have come to their senses following last year's price war, and are now seeking profits, not market share.Slow steaming has created work for a lot of ships that would otherwise have been idle, explains Vincent Clerc, a Maersk executive.
OSAMA BIN LADEN, intelligence sources would have us believe, is, among other things, a shipowner with a fleet of over 20 ships, probably flying flags of convenience (FOCs).
The unsuspecting charterer, often drawn by attractive-sounding freight rates, next learns that the ship, shipowner and cargo have gone missing.
Ms Panteli was suspected at first of acting as a front for a Greek shipowner.
Forensic tests linked him to at least two crimes by N17: the killing of Costas Peratikos, a Greek shipowner in 1997; and a rocket attack against the home of Germany's ambassador to Greece in 1999, during the Kosovo war.The capture of Mr Xiros led to the discovery of two caches of weapons and documents fingering N17 in flats in residential districts of Athens.
It convinced the socialist government to stop squabbling with Mrs Angelopoulos, a former conservative member of Parliament who is married to a shipowner.
Carlyle, via an investment in a Bermudian shipowner called Interlink Maritime, has ordered 28 dry-bulk carriers like the Fidelity.
If, for example, one merchant's cargo was thrown overboard in order to save the ship from sinking, the loss would be shared among the shipowner and all the other merchants with cargoes aboard.
