Genmar joins the list of tanker players tipped as searching for IPO window

Is Peter Georgiopoulos’s General Maritime Corp (Genmar) on the road to a return as a publicly listed tanker owner?

30 January 2015 0:00 GMT Updated 30 January 2015 0:00 GMT

By Joe Brady Stamford

It is one of the rumours flowing from what may be a revived investor interest in crude-tanker stocks following the successful listing of Euronav in New York last week.

Thoughts of a new Genmar listing are intertwined with its pursuit of a merger with Navig8 Crude Tankers and its orderbook for 14 VLCCs. That agreement was first reported by TradeWinds in December.