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Mr Benjamin Goss FCIArb FICS

Commercial (non-lawyer) arbitrator
Job title: Arbitrator & Mediator
Country: United Kingdom

Membership type: Fellow membership
Primary branch: South East
Disciplines: Arbitration

Personal bio

Ben Goss is an international maritime arbitrator with a commercial background in shipping. Ben has accepted over 300 arbitration appointments since 2018 and written over 100 awards.

A Chartered Shipbroker, Ben has been a Member of the Baltic Exchange since 2000 and has over 25 years of experience in chartering bulk carriers, tankers, and offshore support vessels; the carriage of goods; the sale & purchase of second-hand vessels; contracting newbuilds; ship finance and leasing.

With a BA (Hons) in Business & Law, Ben is educated in all aspects of English law, including contract law and the sale of goods. Instead of Law School, Ben opted for a career in the commercial world of international shipping and spent 22 years from 1997 to 2019 as a shipbroker with AP Moller-Maersk and Maersk Broker in the UK, USA, Greece and Denmark. From 2019 to 2021, Ben provided consultancy services to RMK Maritime, a company that provides capital raising and financial advisory services exclusively to the maritime industry, before becoming a full-time arbitrator in 2021.

Ben is a full member of the LMAA.