Seaport Global Securities and Arrow Shipbroking group have forged a strategic cooperation deal that will see them offer services to each other's clients.

The US investment bank and London-headquartered shipbrokerage describe their partnership a reaction to calls for an increasingly multidisciplinary approach to finding creative solutions across their respective corners of the shipping business.

"The value added here is putting steel with financing, and what we have access to is the full capital markets," Seaport Global co-chief executive David Frischkorn told TradeWinds.