TradeWinds digests the digits making the headlines this week.

Paper chase - key figures from shipping's favourite newspaper.

8: Brokers walking from RS Platou's Singapore office

(RS Platou Singapore loses eight brokers)

14.3: Percentage fall in the Genco share price this week after four investment banks downgraded the stock to a swell

(Banks help thump Genco stock with downgrades)

40,000: Gross tonnage of the biggest vessel in the small ship focussed Shipowners' Club

(Specialised tonnage in Shipowners’ Club’s sights)

10m: Debt in dollars owed to Executive Ship Management and V Ships by the Libyan state tanker fleet.

(Debts swell for Libyan tanker fleet)

34m: Panamax newbuildings in dwt scheduled for delivery next year.

(Rough ride ahead for panamax owners)

242m: Loans in dollars that HSH Nordbank and other ship financiers are trying to recover from Omega Navigation as it makes a Chapter 11 filing.

(Omega ‘turns the tables’ on banks)

Digital digits - numbers hitting the headlines on www.tradewinds.no

0: Ransom paid to free the 4,800-dwt Jubba XX (built 1979) from Somali pirate detention. Maybe it was a special offer?

(Pirates free Jubba XX)

44: Cents that is. The price of a US postage stamp featuring Matson Navigation’s 2,019-teu containership RJ Pfeiffer (built 1992)

(Matson immortalised)

57.5m: Share of the action in dollars and shares that Anthony Kandylidis should get from the takeover of OceanFreight by George Economou's DryShips.

(Opportunity knocks)

239m: The dollar and share price that DryShips is paying to take control of OceanFreight

(OceanFreight a done deal)

520m: Amount in dollars paid by Canada's Omers pension fund for top shipmanager V Ships.

(Canadians claim V.Ships)

848m: The dollars that George Economou is plashing out on four Daewoo LNG carrier newbuildings in his second big deal in less than a week.

(George in LNG splash)