Greek shipping firm Euroseas Ltd took delivery of M/V Akinada Bridge, a 5,600 teu post-panamax size container vessel built in 2001 in South Korea, which the Company had previously agreed to acquire.
Following its delivery, the vessel will commence during the first week of January, a 50-120 day charter at a gross daily rate of $11,250. The sale of this vessel concludes the disposition of the vessels of Euromar LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company that previously was partially owned by the Company.
Furthermore, the Company announced that it sold one of its 90’s-built container feeder vessels, M/V Aggeliki P, a 2,008 teu vessel built in 1998, for a gross price of about $4.6 million. The vessel which has already been delivered to its new owners was due for her special survey.
Aristides Pittas, Chairman and CEO of Euroseas, commented: “We are very pleased to complete the present phase of our fleet growth and renewal program which, we believe, has positioned Euroseas to take advantage of the recovering shipping markets. For both drybulk and containership sectors, the orderbook-to-fleet ratio is near its lowest levels of the last two decades indicating minimal supply pressure over the next couple of years."
Aristides added: "Maintenance of the present market levels should return Euroseas to profitability while any strengthening of the charter rates should provide significant upside to our shareholders and, we hope, also reduce the significant discount to net asset value our stock trades at. We continue to pursue accretive growth opportunities and, as we have stated, consider mergers with other fleets either on a combined fleet basis or separately for the drybulk or container vessels of our fleet.”
Euroseas, which operates in the dry cargo, drybulk and container shipping markets, has been in the shipping business over the past 140 years.