April 19th, 20180Greek owner Diana Shipping has fixed kamsarmax bulker Myrto and capesize Santa Barbara to new time charter contracts with Cargill.
Cargill is taking the 2013-built kamsarmax Myrto on a new 13-15 month charter, commencing April 24, at $14,000 per day. The company was previously paying $8,000 per day for the vessel.
The charter for...
April 18th, 20180Greece’s StealthGas yesterday took delivery of its last newbuilding LPG vessel, completing an extensive, seven-year long newbuild program.
The vessel delivered is a 22,000 cu m ice-class, semi-refrigerated, scrubber-fitted LPG carrier called .
The delivery concludes the company’s expansion phase, which commenced in 2011 and...
April 13th, 20180Pappadakis family-controlled Kassian Maritime Navigation has added its second bulker in the space of just two months.
Sources say the Greek bulker outfit has added the 82,000 dwt , shaking hands with Chinese coal conglomerate Qinfa, in a deal thought to be worth around $18m.
In March, Kassian was identified by brokers as the buyer...
April 12th, 20180Greek owner Euroseas has sold its 1998-built handymax bulker for $6.45m.
The vessel, which comes off a $10,000 per day charter next month, was sold to an unaffiliated third party with delivery scheduled for June 30.
Aristides Pittas, chairman and CEO of Euroseas, commented: “As part of our drybulk fleet renewal program we have...
April 11th, 20180An Istanbul court has issued a warrant for the seizure of the bulk carrier , owned by Greece’s Odyssey Navigation, that crashed into a waterfront mansion on the Bosphorus on April 7.
The ruling came after the owners of the Hekimbaşı Salih Efendi mansion applied to the Istanbul 17th Commercial Court of First Instance on April 9,...
April 11th, 20180Project Forward, a joint development project funded by Greek company Arista Shipping, has announced that its affiliate Forward Maritime has signed a letter of intent with China’s Yangzijiang Shipbuilding for the construction of up to 20 LNG-fuelled bulk carriers.
The vessels will be trading under the Forward Ships brand, with...
April 11th, 20180Greek owner Diana Shipping has entered into a time charter contract with United Bulk Carriers International for 2005-built panamax vessel .
The charter commences April 20 for a period of 17-20 months at a rate of $12,000 per day. The vessel’s previous charter, with Nidera, was at $9,500 per day.
Diana Shipping says the charter...
April 10th, 20180Greek bulk carrier operator Globus Maritime is looking to further optimise its fleet and take the opportunities that come with a recovering market for a new round of growth.
Athanasios Feidakis, president and chief executive officer of Globus Maritime, has seen fundamentals in the dry bulk market picking up for the past year and he...
April 9th, 20180A high profile bulk carrier accident on the Bosphorus on the weekend was captured on multiple videos, going viral via social media. The video was seen more than 60,000 times on Splash's Facebook page alone within 24 hours.
The , owned by Greece’s Odyssey Navigation, lost control of its rudder while on a voyage to Egypt on Saturday...
April 5th, 20180Sources tell Splash that the famous Greek owner Adam Polemis has added the 299,000 dwt for $21m. The 15-year-old ship belonged to Japan’s Mitsui OSK Lines. It’s about a year since Polemis bought his last elderly VLCC, the 2002-built TI Topaz, now renamed Good News, from Euronav, for a similar figure.
Polemis’ New Shipping fleet...
