Paper chase - key figures from shipping's favourite newspaper.
50: Ofer ships under the Zodic and Tanker Pacific banners
moving from London to Singapore as empire’s power is balanced, paving the way
for brothers to go it alone.

(Tough market sees Ofer throttle up tonnage
switch to Singapore)
10: MR tanker newbuildings chalked up by Metrostar as ace
asset player Theodore Angelopoulos gets back into tankers.
(Metrostar makes tanker comeback)
1.6bn: Value of Deiulemar assets belonging to eight family
members frozen in latest round of captivating bankruptcy story.
(Italian court freeze Deiulemar clan assets)
14: Claus-Peter Offen boxships which the owner is
fighting 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 first
owner to bin a bulker bigger than 200,000-dwt this year.
(Japanese owner scraps large
cape)
1.5bn: Value of OSG debt
owned by DNB, Nordea and HSH which has the banks fiddling to a different tune
in bankruptcy court.
(Nordea and HSH go their own
way in OSG case)
2: LNG options consigned to
the history books as Stena refuses to order on a speculative basis.
(Stena LNG slims options
tally)
Digital digits - numbers hitting the headlines on www.tradewindsnews.com
8: Potential capesize haul
for John Fredriksen’s Frontline 2012 as it enters the dry-cargo arena with
order tipped in TradeWinds a few weeks back.
(Frontline clinches capes)

50m: Cash taken out of Pacific Basin’s vault to fund
three-ship bulker blitz.
(Pac Basin steps it up)
2: First Ship Lease clients pushing to cut charter rates with
a firm already hit by Torm and BLT issues.
(Double trouble for FSL)
26m: Value of Herbjorn Hansson’s stake in Nordic American
after receiving share component of management company sale to listed vehicle.
(NAT will do nicely)
4: Newbuildings added to Seaspan’s newbuilding list after
its latest trip to a shipyard.
(Seaspan back for more)
31m: Loss carded by Euronav as it kicked off the latest
tanker earnings season on a negative note.
(Euronav falls in final)
15: Years on charter contracts which tempted Jaccar-owned Evergas to pen four
newbuildings.
(Evergas fixes newbuilds)