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Olaf Danckwers

Managing Partner & Co-Founder & Finance Expert
Based in Kiel, Germany

Olaf has spent 30+ years structuring and restructuring ship finance deals, arranging loans, and advising SME and large ship operators on acquisitions, refinancing, and fleet strategies. He knows what banks actually want to see in a financing package and how deals get done -not how they're supposed to work in theory, but how they actually work in practice.

After years of doing analyses for SME clients, he developed some digital tools offering first self-assessments by ship operators. These are offered under SeaCheck.net. For all more complicated solutions HHX.blue steps in to support successful deal realization.

What he brings to HHX.blue:

  • 30+ years structuring maritime finance transactions
  • Deep knowledge of German and European ship finance markets
  • Expertise in debt structuring, loan portfolio & fund management, and complex restructurings
  • Licensed broker for loans (§ 34c GewO) and capital raising (§ 34f GewO)
  • Led financial analysis workpackages in EU-InnoWaTr and WASP EU projects
  • International network across banks, debt funds, and maritime investors
Why he built HHX.blue: "I kept seeing shipping operators failing with loan applications in the conventional way to their traditional homebank. Further I could see the growing need of embedded financing solutions covering also greening aspects. HHX.blue offers the ship operators professional and individual preparation and more."