Paper chase - key figures from shipping's favourite newspaper.
50: Ofer ships under the Zodic and Tanker Pacific bannersmoving from London to Singapore as empire’s power is balanced, paving the wayfor brothers to go it alone.
(Tough market sees Ofer throttle up tonnageswitch to Singapore)
10: MR tanker newbuildings chalked up by Metrostar as aceasset player Theodore Angelopoulos gets back into tankers.
(Metrostar makes tanker comeback)
1.6bn: Value of Deiulemar assets belonging to eight familymembers frozen in latest round of captivating bankruptcy story.
(Italian court freeze Deiulemar clan assets)
14: Claus-Peter Offen boxships which the owner isfighting to sell on its own terms after banks demanded their sale.
(Offen bids to park 14 boxships to delay sale)
11.6m: Price fetched by NS United as it becomes the firstowner to bin a bulker bigger than 200,000-dwt this year.
(Japanese owner scraps largecape)
1.5bn: Value of OSG debtowned by DNB, Nordea and HSH which has the banks fiddling to a different tunein bankruptcy court.
(Nordea and HSH go their ownway in OSG case)
2: LNG options consigned tothe history books as Stena refuses to order on a speculative basis.
(Stena LNG slims optionstally)
Digital digits - numbers hitting the headlines on www.tradewindsnews.com
8: Potential capesize haulfor John Fredriksen’s Frontline 2012 as it enters the dry-cargo arena withorder tipped in TradeWinds a few weeks back.
50m: Cash taken out of Pacific Basin’s vault to fundthree-ship bulker blitz.
2: First Ship Lease clients pushing to cut charter rates witha firm already hit by Torm and BLT issues.
26m: Value of Herbjorn Hansson’s stake in Nordic Americanafter receiving share component of management company sale to listed vehicle.
4: Newbuildings added to Seaspan’s newbuilding list afterits latest trip to a shipyard.
31m: Loss carded by Euronav as it kicked off the latesttanker earnings season on a negative note.
15: Years on charter contracts which tempted Jaccar-owned Evergas to pen fournewbuildings.
