TradeWinds digests the digits making the headlines this week:
Paper chase - Key figures from shipping’s favourite newspaper:
0: The chances Scorpio Tankers boss Robert Bugbee gives of there being another tanker bonanza.
(‘No chance of tanker bonanza’.)
2: The number of 3,400-cbm newbuildings Lauritzen Kosan has chartered long-term from Italian owner Gas & Heat with perhaps another two to follow.
(Lauritzen grows gas-tanker fleet.)
3: The number of IRISL containerships seized by French bank Credit Agricole after sanctions put a dent in finance plans.
(French bank seizes three IRISL vessels.)
6: The number of products tankers said to have been penned by UK-based owner Marine Cross at STX.
(UK player linked to six-ship STX order.)
6: Also the number of pirates the Marshall Islands is looking to busy in Kenya over an alleged attack on a chemical tanker.
(Marshall Islands puts pirates on trial.)
407: The amount in dollars per ldt for which Essar has sent its ageing bulker Govind Prasad to the knacker’s yard.
40,000: The amount per day in dollars which George Economou’s Classic Maritime is paying for an Anangel newbuilding capesize for one year.
9,930,000: The net profit in dollars which London-based broker Thurlestone Shipping bagged from May 2008 to October 2009, oddly.
(Thurlestone sees profit hit $9.93m.)
50,000,000: The maximum amount in euro which Munich-based industrial holding group Aurelius is said to have paid for a large chunk in parent cruise operator Peter Deilmann.
(Aurelius gets big chunk of cruise player.)
Digital digits - Numbers hitting the headlines on www.tradewinds.no:
0: The amount of patience Odfjell now has for Sevmash as it finally resolves to chase the Russian shipbuilder through the courts over non-payment of an arbitration award.
1.2: The loan amount in billions of dollars which Brazilian mining behemoth Vale has agreed with a pair of Chinese lenders.
3: The number of charters of Star Reefer vessels which Joint Fruit Co has dropped like hot potatoes.
(JFC axes Star Reefer Charters.)
6: The number of crew members from two different vessels who are now known to have been kidnapped by bandits in raids off the Cameroonian port of Douala on Sunday.
(Four more kidnapped off Douala.)
36: The amount of hours that innocent US cruiseship passenger Paola Londono was held in custody in Florida after being mistaken for a prostitute.
(Passenger held as ‘prostitute’.)
40: The amount in percentage points by which Pareto Securities reckons products tanker rates could expand by 2012.
(Products rebirth on the cards.)
80: The distance in miles which the hijacked Korean VLCC Samho Dream is now said to have shifted off the coast of Somalia.
(Samho Dream moves off Somalia.)
420: The amount in millions of dollars which STX Pan Ocean will bag from a huge 20-year charter contract from Posco.
32,400,000: The amount of financing in dollars which Greek bulker owner FreeSeas has already managed to secure for its debut newbuilding orders in Jiangsu Yangzijiang.
100,000,000: The minimum amount in Norwegian kroner which Norwegian Car Carriers is reckoned to be looking for if it hatches a plan for a new bond issue.
(NOCC gears up for bond drive.)
525,000,000: The amount in dollars which Shangdong International Transportation Corp is now aiming for in its Hong Kong float.
