TradeWinds digests the digits making the headlines this week.
Paper chase – key figures from shipping’s favourite newspaper:
6: Ore carriers of 250,000-dwt that Australia's Fortescue Metals Group may order at a total cost of perhaps $480m from yards in South Korea or China.
(Prices tempt Fortescue to go it alone)
10: Months ahead of schedule. The opening of the Sammy Ofer Wing at the UK’s National Maritime Museum at Greenwich. But about six weeks too late for the billionaire philanthropist who died in early June.
(Ofer wing opens at London museum)
20: Handysized bulkers on the shopping list of Khalid Hashim of Precious Shipping once the price is right.
(Precious in mood for shopping trip)
84: Market share percentage of the 20 largest liner shipping companies up from 70% a decade ago according to Alphaliner.
(Power concentrates again as top 20 lines grasp 84%)
134: Combined ratio percentage in 2009 of the South of England P&I Club which appears to be facing resistance to a series of cash calls.
8.9m: Pretax profit in dollars of Oslo based newbuilding broker Winmar. The two man outfit managed a pretax profit of NOK 48m on revenue of NOK 63m last year.
(Winmar pockets record profits)
530m: Price tag in dollars on V Ships as Omers, a Toronto based municipal employees pension fund, holds exclusive talks on an acquisition.
(Omers back in contention to buy V Ships)
Digital digits – numbers hitting the headlines on www.tradewinds.no
14: Beluga Chartering employees under investigation for possible involvement in a EUR 64m ($91.8m) fictitious sales fraud.
266: Pirate incidents recorded in the first half of 2011 by the International Maritime Bureau up from 196 in the same period of last year.
1,100: Tonnes lifting capacity of each of the two cranes that will be on the most powerful heavy lift ship yet to be built. The vessel has just been ordered by Netherlands based Jumbo Shipping from the Brodosplit yard in Croatia.
55m: Cost in dollars of a new port of Los Angeles police building originally scheduled to be a $6.5m refurbishment.
1.25bn: Top estimate of the price a 25% stake in SCF Sovcomflot could be worth as Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, signs a privatisation decree.
