Paper chase - key figures from shipping's favourite newspaper.
$500m: Investment planned by Evangelos Marinakis on boxshipand MR tanker newbuildings.
(Marinakis makes giant order splash)
4: Bulkers that John Fredriksen’s Golden Ocean looks set tocancel at Jinhai Heavy Industries following delays.
(Golden Ocean closes in on more bulker cancellations)
9: Bulker newbuildings ordered by Axel C Eitzen at YangzhouGuoyu Shipbuilding as he stages a comeback to the shipping arena.
(Eitzen back in newbuilding action with huge China order)
3: Trio of German companies get together to create a megabrokerage for 250 container feederships.
(German trio form monster broking venture)
3: Months before P&I clubs provide repatriation cover for unpaid crew of abandoned TMT combinationcarrier ‘A Whale’.
(Revised cover offers no help to TMT crew)
6: Fully refrigerated gas carriers Navigator is already lookingto sell a little more than six months after buying them from Maersk.
(Navigator set to sell Maersk sextet)
Digital digits - numbers hitting the headlines on www.tradewindsnews.com
$200m: Profit logged by Maersk Line in the first quarter,overturning a $600m deficit in the same period of 2012.
$395m: Paid by US offshore giant Tidewater for Norway'sTroms Offshore as it expands into the North Sea.
1: Capesize purchased by Golden Ocean from bankrupt KoreaLine Corp (KLC) for around $34m, its first ever second hand cape purchase.
11: Jail sentence for a fraudster who purported to be a memberof the Kollakis shipowning family, four years more than originally handed down.
(More jail time for fraudster)
2: MR products carrier newbuildings ordered by Marco Fiori’sd’Amico International Shipping at Hyundai Mipo Dockyard.
2: 50-000-dwt products carriers options declared by a joint venturebetween Sweden’s Stena Bulk and Indonesia’s Golden Agri Resources.
8: Eco-handysize bulkers ordered by German owner Vogemann atSamjin Shipbuilding .
