S & P

A relatively quiet week for the S+P market.

In the Dry sector, the Japanese controlled capesize M/V NSS ADVANCE (173,246 dwt 1995 Sasebo) invited offers on Thursday last week and reported committed to Chinese buyers for a price in the region of US$ 10m.

In the Wet sector, the M/T SEAEDEN (45,983 dwt 2007 blt Shin Kurushima) reported sold at region US$ 18.5m, to Far Easterns, possibly Indonesian buyers.

On the smaller sizes, the Far East controlled product tanker sisters M/T BOW DE FENG and M/T BOW DE RICH (12,000 dwt 2002/2003 blt Fukuoka) have been sold to Sinochem, China for region US$ 21m enbloc.

NEWBUILDING

With Korea and China on holidays for most of last week, unsurprisingly it has been a very quiet week in the Newbuilding markets.

The major order we do have to report this week, which in fact was signed last week, is from Clients of CIMC, who are the listed Chinese leasing company and the largest container manufacturer in the world. Now that further details have become apparent, we can report that they have placed a series of ten South Americamax 9,300 TEU Vessels, with the order being split six at Dalian Shipyard (DSIC) and four at STX Dalian. It is reported that the order will be for circa USD low 80 Mills per Vessel and delivery from 2H 2014, with all the Vessels being on long term charter to CMA CGM. It is interesting that STX Dalian have been able to win some of this business, as we believed it would very much be domestic Chinese Yards that were able to be considered for this project being backed by this Chinese leasing company, however this shows STX’s further expansion into the larger container shipbuilding sector in their Chinese facility. Whilst CIMC already have the aforementioned exposure into the

physical box side of the business, this will be their first foray into Ship Owning.

We have now seen the global container orderbook reduce to now be only circa 500 ships on order and more importantly to just below the psychological level of less than 10% of the existing fleet on the water. Of these five hundred or so ships still left to deliver, more than 350 of these are in the larger postpanamax sector. It is interesting to compare this to the Tanker sector where we now see an almost comparable set of figures, where across the product and crude sectors only 9.8% of the existing fleet is now on the current orderbook. The dry orderbook across all sectors still has 20% of the existing fleet on order, however this is now well down on the 27% we saw as we entered 2012.

In terms of other reported business an unknown Marshall Islands based owner has placed an order for a brace of cargo/passenger ships worth a combined USD 16 Mill at the Japanese Yard Kegoya Dock KK, with delivery set for the end of 2013.