Paper chase - key figures from shipping's favourite newspaper.
53.3m: Tempting price which has led Hyundai Merchant Marine to turn to a Chinese yard for new VLOCs.
(HMM to ink VLOC pair at Bohai)
600m: Cash laid down by BP for a 16 strong products tanker haul at Hyundai Mipo.
5: Newbuildings being chalked up by Horizon Denizcilik at China’s Zhejiang Yangfan Shipyard.
(Horizon Denizcilik beefs up fleet)
1,000: Staff facing the axe at STX Offshore as the South Korean shipbuilder looks to fight back from financial trouble.
(Restructured STX to shed up to 1,000 employees)
1: Clarksons’ leader in Greece, George Margaronis, pictured, is set to clock on as the Latsis group’s new main man in London.
(Latsis poaches top man from Clarksons Hellas)
10m: Price TMT has fetched for a capesize bulker, which was not among its ships impacted by bankruptcy proceedings.
(TMT offloads capesize for bargain price)
2: Kyokuyo Shipyard newbuildings penned by Eipc Gas of Singapore as the company continues its expansion efforts.
(Epic Gas leaps up in ship capacity on Japan order)
Digital digits - numbers hitting the headlines on www.tradewindsnews.com
325m: Final haul for Scorpio Bulkers’ IPO should underwrites clean up the stock on offer to them.
1bn: Potential income for Tsakos Energy Navigation if long-tipped tie-up with Statoil performs to its maximum promise.
230m: Cash laid down by Korea Line as it continues its comeback with a big bulker quartet.
290m: Cash Greek owner Eletson Holdings is aiming to raise from a sale of notes.
5: Years after leaving RS Platou for Pareto that Henning Leo Knutsen has returned to replace S&P supremo Wilhelm Holst at the Norwegian broker.
300,000: Dollars per day DNB believes VLGC rates could hit in 2015 aided by the enlarged Panama Canal.
1: Eco newbuilding added by Evangelos Pistiolis as Top Ships plots a comeback after fleet sale.
