TradeWinds digests the digits making the headlines this week:
Paper chase - Key figures from shipping’s favourite newspaper:
0: Ships remaining with Einar Lange after $14.7m sale of elderly bulker. More...
2: Chemical tanker newbuildings at United Shipbuilding Corp taken over by Russian giant Sovcomflot. More...
4: Golden Ocean panamaxes still on the go at Pipavav after Norwegian owner cuts two ships from the troublesome order. More...
6: Offshore support vessels scrapped by Tidewater last month. More...
370: Vessels sold and scrapped by Greek owners in the first 11 months of 2009, with Diamantis Diamantides’ Marmaras Navigation leading the way with 15 departures. More...
5,000: Additional dollars per day to be piled on to VLCC operating costs if new $25bn carbon tax bill gets the nod in Copenhagen. More...
13.5m: Value of Ultrapetrol private equity sponsor AIG-GE Capital Latin American Infrastructure Fund’s holding in the shipowner which has been placed on the sales block. More...
30m: Price Fred Olsen is said to have fetched for the FPSO Knock Nevis, once known as the Jahre Viking. More...
38m: Dollars injected into Cyprus-listed Ocean Tankers by boss Michael Ioannides. More...
100m: Expansion project at India’s Varun shipping which has been put on hold. More...
360m: Value of latest fund raising effort at Chilean outfit CSAV, its third capital injection of the year. More...
Digital digits - Numbers hitting the headlines on tradewinds.no:
3: Second-hand boxships bought by Russia’s Sakhalin Shipping Co this year after opting against Chinese newbuilding brace. More...
6: LPG newbuildings penned by Jaccar Holdings at Sinopacific, worth $22m each, brokers say. More...
28: Crew on board Angelicoussis-owned VLCC captured by pirates off the Somali coast this week. More...
30,000: Cash in dollars ex Sovcomflot chief Dmitry Skarga says he kept at home. Impressive, but not in the same league as his one-time CFO Igor Borisenko who claimed to have kept $250,000 in a drawer at his home. More...
57,920: Monthly pay packet, including benefits, for new Pac Basin boss Klaus Nyborg, who will replace Richard Hext in the New Year. More...
10m: Cost to Globas Maritime should it choose to buy out its external shareholders and go private. More...
14.6m: Approximate value of Seanergy Maritime shares issued to the Restis family this week. More...
60.7m: Third quarter loss for Camillo Eitzen, its fourth consecutive quarterly reversal. More...
76m: Double panamax purchase canned by DryShips after falls in the BDI. More...
84.7m: Write-down on ship values which pushed Nordic Tankers to a $90m reversal in the first nine months of 2009. More...
356m: Dollars chalked off an NYK share issue following the pricing of the offer this week. More...
1.1bn: Cost of first South Korean cruise ship newbuilding booked at Samsung Heavy Industries. More...
