SHip owners continued to contract on more new buildings over the past week. In its latest weekly report, shipbroker Banchero Costa noted that “newbuilding activity continued this week, with new interest in orders emerging in the container and gas tanker sectors. Of particular note this week: In the gas tanker sector, Turkish owner Ciner Shipping is understood to have booked 3x 90,000 cubic meters of VLACs (Very Large Ammonia Carriers) on HD Hyundai Samho, at an announced price of $120.9 million per Of these, with delivery scheduled for 2030. In the container sector, Greek owner Minerva Marine has reportedly placed an order for 4 x 6,000 TEU vessels at Hengli Shipyard (Dalian), scheduled for delivery during 2028.
Source: Exclusive Ship Brokers
Meanwhile, in a separate report, shipbroker Panamax segment ‘India Prosperity’ – 93K/2011 Taizhou Sanfu sold for US$11.5M to Chinese buyers on DD basis due to poor condition and in Ultramax segment ‘BRITA OLDENDORFF’ and ‘BENJAMIN OLDENDORFF’ both 62K/2020 Oshima sold for US$37.5M each, Meghna acquired ‘CMB’. “JORDAENS” – 63K/2019 TADOTSU for 35.2 USD mills, while “INCE BEYLERBEYI” – 61K/2012 IWAJI was sold to ADNOC for the region of 22 USD mills and in the Supramax segment, M/E ELECTRONIC MACHINERY “IVS CRIMSON CREEK” – 58K/2014 Shin Kurushima found new owners for medium mills. $23 Finally, in the manual size segment, the OHBS “IKAN LANDUK” 37K/2013 Onomichi sold for a very high 16 mill and the “BLUE UNION ALPHA” – 28K/2011 Imabari sold for a very high $9.65 mill.”
The shipbroker added: “This week, the S&P tanker activity witnessed a fair number of transactions. In the Suezmax sector, sister ships ‘ALASKA’ – 163K/2006 HHI and ‘ARCHANGEL’ – 163K/2006 HHI were sold collectively to Chinese buyers for US$50.75 each. Moving to the MR sector, the 1A Ice classed ‘MINERVA’ vessel was sold RITA” – STX 50K/2005 unit was delivered for 16.2 USD mills to Chinese interests. In smaller volumes, the stainless steel unit “FG ROTTERDAM” – 19K/2012 Usuki was sold for 22 high mills and StSt “DING HENG 39” – 19K/2008 Fukuoka achieved a price of 18.3 million USD “CNC dream” – 19K/2004 The Fukuoka Agreement was concluded at a price of 11.5 million US dollars,” concluded Exclusive.
Nikos Rousanoglou, Global Hellenic Shipping News
