New5 In Numb3rs

TradeWinds digests the digits making the headlines this week:

Paper chase - Key figures from shipping’s favourite newspaper:

Evangelos Marinakis.

0: Interest among banks to get involved in CSAV’s planned five-vessel newbuilding order.

1: Pipavav newbuilding destined for Setaf-Saget which has bitten the dust after the Indian yard failed to deliver on time.

4: Chemical tankers booked by Greek owner Cosmoship in Korea which have been switched for bulkers and boxships.

6: Potential containership newbuilding haul for Torvald Klaveness as it plots $240m spree in China.

13.7m: Dollars spent in the summer transfer market by Evangelos Marinakis-led Olympiakos Football Club. The new recruits include the highly-rated Krisztian Nemeth from Liverpool.

110m: Fire-sale price tag slapped on Gulmar dive support vessels, well below their $180m contract value.

400m: Dollars Hamburg Sud is shelling out for eight newbuildings at Shanghai Shipyard.

Digital digits - Numbers hitting the headlines on tradewinds.no:

2 to 3: Number of years over which John Fredriksen predicts shipowners will now struggle to make money.

(JF tips tanker trouble)

Jacques Saade.

6: Crew missing following a crash between a Euronav VLCC and a Chinese general cargoship off China.

(Six missing in VLCC smash)

45,500: Pounds splashed on Braemar shares as CEO Alan Marsh treats his children.

(Stocks not socks for Marsh’s kids)

90m: Jo Tankers’ spending on latest pair of newbuildings at New Times Shipbuilding.

(Jo pens tanker pair)

100m: Dollar bills bound for the bank account of K-Sea Transportation following injection from First Reserve and Kayne Anderson.

(Heavyweights in at K-Sea)

340.8m: Top deck IPO target for Bob Burke-backed Ridgebury Tankers.

(Ridgebury closes in on IPO)

864m: Profit stacked up by Jacques Saade-led CMA CGM in the first half of 2010.

(CMA CGM sheds the red)

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