Despite recent denials from the Italian owner Vincenzo Romeo when probably the deal was not closed or still under negotiations, this week it emerged that Lugano-based Nova Marine Carriers is behind the sale of two handysize bulk carriers from Japan’s Escobal. According to several sources in the shipbroking business the 2009-built Gloriosa I and the 2010-built Brodiaea have just been sold to Romeo for respectively $5.9m and $6.5m.
and the 2010-built Brodiaea have just been sold to Romeo for respectively $5.9m and $6.5m.Nova Marine Carriers is one of the few shipping companies in Europe active today in the S&P dry bulk market for new investments and at mid January also set up (through the Luxembourg-based Nova Marine Holding) a new joint venture with the Canadian firm Algoma Central Corporation called NovaAlgoma Cement Carriers (NACC) that operates one of the biggest fleet of cement carrying ships in the world.
