Professor Costas Th. Grammenos established The International Centre for Shipping Trade and Finance at London's Cass Business School, City University, in 1984. In April 2007, the announcement of the renaming of The Centre in honour of its founder, was made by Professor David Rhind, Vice-Chancellor of City University at the time.

The Centre pioneers postgraduates in Shipping, Logistics and Energy Trade and Finance, offering the first specialist MSc degrees in these disciplines.

Through its unique blend of theory and practice, The Centre has gained international recognition among industry leaders, government figures, senior academics and its graduates and students. The International Centre for Shipping Trade and Finance is a global hub and the first to introduce inter-relationships between shipping, trade, and finance by teaching, researching and discussion in class with leading international academics and practitioners from the City of London and overseas.

The Centre also provides a forum for international dialogue through its Conferences, Seminars and Debates (where, in addition to leading international figures, student and graduates also contribute).

The Centre also introduced the three inter-linked circles of 'Shipping Trade and Finance,' and with it, a new approach to international business - 'the global approach' - where decisions are based on both internal and external parameters; and its teaching combines theory and practice.

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