Capital Product Partners buys 11 Marinakis LNG carriers for $3.1bn in pure-play gas move

Greek owner Evangelos Marinakis will boost the fleet of his US-listed company Capital Product Partners (CPLP) with 11 LNG carriers from his private fleet and turn it into a pure-play gas carrier owner.

The new outfit, to be named Capital New Energy Carriers LP, intends to divest its container ships, which it no longer considers part of its core business, CPLP said on Monday.