Source: Xclusiv shipbroker The Ultramax “Tai Shine” – 61K/2012 Shin Kasado is on subs at region USD 22 mills, whilst the 2-year older Supramax “Royal Samurai”- 58K/2010 Tsuneishi Cebu was sold for USD 17.75 mills to Bangladeshi buyers. Handysize S&P activity was also very firm, with the Scrubber fitted OHBS “SSI Daring”- 36K/2017 Shikoku being sold for USD 26.
7 mills to clients of HMM. On the same sector, the Electronic M/E Ice Class 1C “Lago Di Cancano” – 38K/2014 Qingshan and the “Lago Di Como” – 38K/2014 Qingshan changed hands for USD 36.5 mills enbloc.
Last but not least, Turkish buyers acquired the OHBS Handysize “Coreleader Ol “- 37K/2012 Saiki for mid USD 17 mills, while the South Korean built “Darya Jamuna” – 37K/2012 HMD was sold for low USD 16 mills to Greek buyers”. In a separate note, VesselsValue, a division of Veson said that “S&P Values increased for new Newbuild Capesizes, Modern Panamaxes and mid-age Handysize. PostPanamax BC Claas Oldendorff (95,800 DWT, Jan 2013, Imabari) sold to unknown Singaporean for USD 27.
0 mil, VV Value USD 26.5 mil. Supramax BC Seacon Yantai (57,000 DWT, Aug 2010, COSCO Zhoushan) sold to PT Primatama Energi Mandiri for USD 13.
8 mil, VV Value USD 14.8 mil. Handy BC SSI Daring (36,200 DWT, Apr 2017, Shikoku Dockyard) sold to unknown South Korean buyers for USD 26.
7 mil, VV Value USD 24.4 mil., it noted.
Meanwhile, in the tanker S&P market, Xclusiv added that “on the tanker side, it was also an interesting week with many transactions being reported mainly in the MR2 sector. The Scrubber fitted LR2 “Pacific Jewels” – 115K/2016 Daehan and the “Pacific Treasures” – 115K/2016 Daehan were sold enbloc for high USD 60’s to clients of FGas. Torm clients acquired a fleet of eight MR2 vessels from Sinokor for USD 340 mills including USD 238 mills cash and USD 102 mills in the form of 2.
65m shares. Furthermore, the Electronic M/E “Green Sea” – 51K/2014 Dae Sun was sold for mid/high USD 38 mills, while the “Nave Equator”- 50K/2009 SPP found new owners for USD 26 mills. On the MR1 sector, Chinese buyers acquired the MR1 “Shan Gang Rong He” – 39K/2001 Santierul Naval for USD 7.
1 mills. Finally, the Small/ Chemical tanker “Pearl Maya”- 8K/2018 Bohai changed hands for USD 16.5 mills”, the shipbroker concluded.
Similarly, VesselsValue added that “tanker values remained mostly stable again last week with mid age MR values firming slightly. Aframax Pacific Treasures & Pacific Jewels (115,200 DWT, Mar 2016, Daehan) sold on subs en bloc to Petrovietnam for USD 137 mil, VV Value USD 136.31 mil.
MR2 (Chemical/Product) Hafnia Pegasus (50,300 DWT, Oct 2010, Guangzhou CSSC Longxue Shipbuilding) sold to undisclosed buyers for USD 28.5 mil, VV Value USD 28.97 mil.
8 x MR2 (Chemical/Product) (49,700-50,000 DWT, 2014-2015) sold en bloc in a cash and shares deal to Torm for a total of USD 340 mil, VV Value USD 344.5 mil.”, it concluded.
Nikos Roussanoglou, Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide.
