TradeWinds digests the digits making the headlines this week:
Paper chase - Key figures from shipping’s favourite newspaper:
0: Chinese steel maker Jiangsu Shagang reveals how many ships it aims to own.
(Shagang dispels ownership aims)
8: Containerships that Thenamaris will have on order from Jiangsu Yangzijiang if all options in a letter of intent are declared.
(Thenamaris ups box-order tempo)
(Reefer spot rates sink to record lows)
186: Number of Greek flag ships that reported stowaways last year.
(P&I figures reveal IMO in dark about stowaway numbers)
395: Dollars per ldt paid by ship breakers for Essar Shipping’s bulker 115,000-dwt Badri Prasad (built 1978).
(Bangladeshi comeback lifts scrap prices)
3,387: World bulk carriers newbuildings on order according to Clarksons.
(Bulkers account for chunk of world orderbook)
500m: IPO planned by Shandong International Transportation Corp.
(Chinese line to kick off $500m IPO)
7bn: Amount of debt that CMA CGM needs to reorganise.
(Belgian millionaire in talks with CMA)
Digital digits - Numbers hitting the headlines on tradewinds.no:
81: Number of gas carrier drydocking days that contributed to a $35.2m loss suffered by Exmar throuugh the second quarter.
98: Size of the dent in square metres in the hull of the Mitsui OSK lines 314,000-dwt tanker M. Star (built 2008) left by a mystery event that the Japanese company describes as an explosion.
110: Years of jail time handed out to 11 Somali pirates by a court in the Seychelles.
1m: Fine in Euros imposed on Trafigura by an Amsterdam court for exporting toxic waste on the 47,980-dwt products tanker Probo Koala (built 1989).
4m: Ransom paid to Somali pirates to secure the release of the 35,300-dwt Turkish bulker Frigia (built 1978) after four months of detention.
9.4m: Amount in dollars that yacht broker Nicholas Edmiston collects from Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky following a sale and purchase commission row over disposal of a $312m superyacht.
400m: Capital boost in dollars planned by Chilean line CSAV to help finance a five containership newbuilding programme.
