SSY has hired a team of brokers and a research analyst from rival Braemar, which will boost its office in Athens.

Dimitris Kyrtsos has joined the shipbroking group in the new global role of co-head of sale and purchase, sitting alongside SSY partner and department director Toby English.

SSY has also hired senior brokers Nikos Katsaras and Marios Yiannopoulos, as well as S&P broker Filippos Zannos and S&P research analyst Alexandra Alatari.