Athens-based handysize specialist Pioneer Marine has sold its 2009-built handysize bulker . The sale comes on the back of Pioneer completing the sale of four bulkers earlier in the year, and reduces the company’s owned fleet to nine vessels in total. Pioneer says the disposals have raised a total...
https://splash247.com/pioneer-marine-offloads-another-bulker/
Nasdaq-listed Greek owner Castor Maritime has taken delivery of two more kamsarmaxes, acquired on the secondhand market, and immediately put the vessels to work. Castor has secured a time charter contract for 2010-built kamsarmax Magic Twilight (ex Inspiration), commencing on April 13 at a rate of...
https://splash247.com/castor-maritime-puts-new-kamsarmax-pair-to-work/
New York-listed tanker owner and operator Navios Maritime Acquisition has secured an up to $100m loan from a subsidiary of N Shipmanagement Acquisition, an entity affiliated with its chairman and CEO, Angeliki Frangou. A two-year loan has scheduled amortisation and bears interest at a rate of 11%...
https://splash247.com/navios-acquisition-gets-up-to-100m-loan-from-angeliki-frangou-linked-firm/
Nearly two years since their father died, the Dellaportas brothers have decided to split the fleet of Greece’s Meadway Shipping & Trading in two. The founder of the company, Dionysios Dellaportas, died aged 70 in July 2019. After much discussion his two sons have decided this year to split his...
https://splash247.com/dellaportas-brothers-split-meadway-fleet/
Hyundai Motor partners with Healthy Seas to foster a sustainable future
· In pursuit of the company’s goal to establish sustainable leadership, Hyundai Motor has announced a pan-European partnership with the marine conservation organisation Healthy Seas· By partnering with Healthy Seas, Hyundai is furthering its commitment to “Progress for Humanity” with a particular focus on the seas and oceans· Based in the Netherlands, Healthy Seas aims to free the oceans of abandoned...
An alliance of Greek and Swedish shipowners, along with NGO Transport & Environment (T&E), has called on the European Commission to put the polluter pays principle at the core of its emissions trading system (ETS) proposal. The EU Commission is revising the EU ETS directive in line with the...
Nasdaq-listed Greek containership owner Euroseas has sealed a new time charter contract for 1999-built 1,732 teu boxship . The new contract, with an unnamed charterer, will commence between April 20 and May 2 for a period 18-21 months at a daily rate of $16,800. The vessel’s current charter is at...
https://splash247.com/euroseas-charters-out-feeder-boxship-at-more-than-double-the-previous-rate/
Sri Lanka on Friday filed a claim for $17.38m with the Greek owner of a VLCC that caught fire and left a bunker spill stretching 40 km off the South Asian island last September. The vessel, owned by Adam Polemis’s New Shipping, was travelling from Kuwait to India with 270,000 tonnes of crude oil on...
https://splash247.com/sri-lanka-files-17-38m-claim-against-greek-owner-of-new-diamond-vlcc/
John Angelicoussis, Greece’s largest shipowner in dwt terms, died on Saturday at a hospital in Athens, 20 days after suffering a severe heart attack. The 72-year-old magnate took over the Angelicoussis Shipping Group in 1989 after the death of his father and grew it into one of the world’s...
https://splash247.com/greek-shipping-magnate-john-angelicoussis-passes-away/
