Communicate with ShipShares LLC

"Early ships were built on shares. Some men of the community supplied money for wood, metal, and rope. Others contributed their time and skill. Merchants supplied provisions for the voyage. Each took shares entitling him to participate in the profits in proportion to his contribution." Merchant Marine for Trade and Defense US Maritime Commission, 1946

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Issuing shares in ships has been a mechanism for launching new maritime enterprises since the Age of Discovery. Venice led by dividing ownership interests in a vessel into 64ths.  The Netherlands improved upon this by making the interests freely tradeable, and in the process simultaneously created the Dutch East India Company, the Amsterdam Bourse and  history's first true IPO. The shares-in-ships model crossed the Atlantic after the American Revolution to become a major source of capital to build the young nation's merchant fleet.

ShipShares LLC was formed in 2005 by realizing the internet enables building global investor communities around curated shipping / shipbuilding initiatives. Bankable Engineering resulted, the integration of technical expertise, financial projections and investment-grade draft documentation around promising early-stage marine shipping projects. Two advantages result: 1. Time and costs are saved by providing legal, accounting and investment professionals an integrated engineering, economic and financial solution on which to expand to meet legal and regulatory requirements; 2. An offering circular or prospectus is an empowering document that enables founders and managers to proactively pursue a greater variety of funding options while forthrightly presenting their own intended equity interests in the new enterprise.

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Please click the presentation to view an example of how Bankable Engineering can transform an acorn enterprise into an oak. US builders / green propulsion integrators may click here to be added to distro list for updates on RSS-80. Vendors / services providers may click here to view alliances needed to establish a new marine shipping enterprise. Ship owners may click here to learn how the internet launched a ship in less time at lower cost than traditional methods. Parties wishing to receive notice of an offering circular when available please click here.