Ton Mile Trader

Mike began his professional career as a lead singer in various southern rock bands in his early 20s. His hard driving, whiskey-soaked vocals made him quite popular on the live music circuit. He regularly wowed crowds at the legendary Fillmore East – and of course his home away from home, Atlanta’s Fox Theatre. After tiring of the constant touring and hardscrabble existence, he traded in his cowboy hats, black and white, for a sextant and began a career at sea. Though only a deck hand upon signing articles on his first voyage, he soon discovered now commonly used navigation methods such as great circle sailing and GPS. In 1992 he was credited as the first person to circumnavigate the globe wearing a Mookie Wilson jersey. In 1994, after reading Conrad’s “Lord Jim”, Mike lost his affinity for life at sea and began a shore side career working side by side with chemical tanker legends Jim Byrne, Brian Van Aken and John Bailey. The knowledge overload took its toll, however, and Mike moved to the Garden District in New Orleans, where he currently resides at 711 Fern St. When he is not marketing FFAs to unsuspecting widows and orphans, he fills his spare time writing shipping blogs, regularly bowling 10 perfect frames at Rock and Bowl, and playing honky-tonk piano at the Maple Leaf bar on Oak St.

Jeffrey wasn't always your friendly neighborhood dry bulk analyst / freight options broker. Before getting bitten by the "bulk bug" he was a Boston University graduate not sure where life was going to lead him. Falling back on a fascination and degree in East Asian Studies, Jeffrey landed a Park Avenue job rubbing elbows with Korean diplomats and businessmen and eating more kimchi than he ever imagined was possible. As if the kimchi overload wasn't enough, he then decided to fly out to the Land of the Morning Calm and begin a career in shipping. Upon moving to South Korea, Jeffrey soon learned to rein in his East Coast sarcasm and avoid bringing up the topic of American-raised beef. He instead spent his time learning about his newfound true loves -- iron ore, coal, grain, steel -- pretty much anything carried in the cargo hold of a dry bulk vessel. And then.. one fateful day before meeting up with a Nepalese sherpa to go hiking in the Himalayas.. Jeffrey attended a freight derivatives conference where he met the mighty Mikal Boe. Mikal sensed something special in him (or maybe just wanted to give his ears a rest and stop talking about bulk for a few minutes) and suggested Jeffrey contact George Glass and Co. The rest is TMT history.