About ARMA
Technical judgment and legal clarity, under one independent review.
ARMA is a boutique maritime advisory built on two disciplines that rarely sit in the same room.
ARMA — AR Maritime Advisors — was founded to close a gap most vessel buyers and owners run into eventually: the person who understands the engine room rarely understands the paperwork, and the person who understands the paperwork rarely understands the engine room. ARMA is built around both, working together, on every review.
Technical
Roberto Arispe
Roberto Arispe is a Mexican naval mechanical engineer and maritime professional. His background spans chief engineer roles on tugboats, Port State Control inspection, technical superintendency, and marine machinery and shipboard operations. He has spent his career evaluating vessel condition, operational risk, and machinery reliability firsthand — not from a brochure. That technical judgment is the foundation of every ARMA review, from a remote second opinion to the technical phase of a Due Diligence 360.
- Chief Engineer, tugboats
- Port State Control inspector
- Technical superintendent
- Marine technical risk evaluator
Legal & Documentary
Olga Romero
Olga Romero brings the legal, documentary, corporate, and commercial risk judgment behind ARMA's advisory work. Her focus is the documentation trail that determines whether a vessel decision is actually safe to make — ownership chains, registration consistency, corporate and patrimonial structure, and the practical documentary risk a purchase, claim, or dispute can carry. She leads the legal/documentary phase behind ARMA's Due Diligence 360 and reviews ARMA's contracts, disclaimers, and client-facing legal materials before they are used.
- Legal & documentary risk
- Corporate & patrimonial matters
- Commercial risk judgment
- Contract & disclaimer review
Why ARMA Exists
One problem, reviewed from both sides.
A bad maritime decision is rarely caused by one missing fact. It's caused by paperwork, condition, access, expectations, and money being reviewed separately, by different people, at different times. ARMA exists to put technical and legal/documentary judgment on the same case, before a purchase, repair, or ownership decision becomes expensive.
Independent
ARMA is engaged by the client and answers to the client — not to a broker's commission, a yard's repair estimate, or a seller's timeline.
Boutique
ARMA takes on a limited number of matters at a time, by design, so every case gets both the technical review and the documentary judgment behind it.
Based in Baja California Sur
Based in La Paz / Los Cabos, with remote advisory available when documents, photos, video, and records can be provided.
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Want to work with ARMA?
Send ARMA a short description of the vessel, the situation, and the decision you're trying to make.
contact@armaritimeadvisors.comWhat to send
- Vessel type, size, year, and location
- What decision you are trying to make
- Documents, photos, estimates, or survey notes available
- Timeline or deadline
- Main concern or red flag