New York-listed Greek owner Costamare has reaffirmed its dry bulk fleet plans, emerging as the highest bidder of one of the few reported cape sales this month. The Konstantinos Konstantakopoulos-led company tabled some $35m for the 12-year-old, Koyo Dock-built Frontier Unity, in a deal with its...
French shipbuilder the Naval Group has laid the keel of a new frigate ordered by the Hellenic Navy. The future HS Formion will be the final ship in a series of three that are export variants of the defence and intervention frigates (Fregate de Defense et d’Intervention; FDI) being built by the...
Greece’s Laskaridis Maritime has stepped up its kamsarmax newbuild series in China with six ships spread across two shipyards. The Athens-based dry bulk shipping arm of the Alimia Group has returned to Hengli Shipbuilding for four more 82,000 dwt vessels and signed up for two additional units at...
https://splash247.com/laskaridis-maritime-boosts-kamsarmax-orders/
The first newcastlemax sales of the month are ticking in with brokers reporting Charalambos Mylonas-led Transmed has privately let go of two 203,000 dwt, Bohai-built big bulkers, the Newmax and the Cape Kallia, for $38m each. Both ships hit the water in 2012. Newmax is now renamed Rosebank and has...
Greek owner Tsakos Energy Navigation (TEN) has confirmed the sale of an ageing aframax tanker as it continues its fleet renewal push. The New York-listed tanker and LNG carrier owner has offloaded the 2007 Sumitomo-built Izumo Princess for about $37m. The buyer was not named, but shipping databases...
https://splash247.com/ten-offloads-veteran-aframax-as-fleet-renewal-presses-ahead/
New York-listed Greek bulker owner Diana Shipping has entered into a time charter contract with Bohai Shipping for one of its capesize dry bulk vessels. Bohai Shipping hired the 2013-built, 179,134 dwt bulker P. S. Palios. The gross charter rate is $27,150 per day, minus a 5% commission paid to...
https://splash247.com/diana-shipping-charters-out-capesize-bulker-to-bohai-shipping/
Athens-based pool operator and shipmanager Heidmar is expanding its operation with the addition of Landbridge Ship Management in Hong Kong. The move will see the Pankaj Khanna-led outfit with over 60 tankers and bulkers under commercial management expand its offering to include technical...
https://splash247.com/heidmar-takes-over-landbridge-ship-management/
Nasdaq-listed Greek boxship owner Euroseas has fixed a time charter contract for a feeder boxship. It also agreed to sell one such vessel to an undisclosed buyer. The charter was signed for the 1,740 teu feeder EM Hydra for a minimum period of ten to a maximum period of twelve months at the option...
https://splash247.com/euroseas-fixes-out-one-feeder-boxship-and-sells-another/
US-listed bulker owner Genco Shipping & Trading has urged shareholders in a definitive proxy filing to dismiss Greek shipping magnate George Economou’s proposal and his nominee to the company’s board. Economou, who, via his affiliated investment vehicles, holds about a 5.4% ownership stake in...
https://splash247.com/genco-slams-george-economou-as-boardroom-battle-heats-up/
Hong Kong-based shipmanager Anglo-Eastern has sealed a deal to buy Euronav’s shipmanagement arm in Greece. The deal for Euronav Ship Management Hellas will also see the duo join forces, with Anglo-Eastern assuming shipmanagement responsibilities for the tankers currently under Euronav’s management....
https://splash247.com/anglo-eastern-to-take-over-euronavs-greek-shipmanagement-arm/