Pangaea Logistics Solutions is not the type of outfit to stand overly tall or make especially loud noises as it pursues its trademark niche-trading opportunities.

The New York-listed company operates quietly and below the radar from a base that is also off the beaten path in the traditional sailing mecca of Newport.

Yet here it was on a Saturday morning in April hosting more than 100 guests on the Block Island ferry for the spectacular — a Guinness-record implosion of twin 500-foot cooling towers at a retired power plant in Somerset, Massachusetts.