Yangzhou Dayang Shipbuilding Co News

Eagle Bulk Shipping announced that it has acquired a 2015-built CROWN-63 Ultramax bulkcarrier for a purchase price of USD 21.275 million. The vessel was constructed at Yangzhou Dayang Shipbuilding CO.,LTD., the same yard as the nine Ultramaxes acquired by the Company earlier this year, and is of similar design. The vessel is scheduled to be delivered to the Company in January 2018, and will be renamed the M/V New London Eagle. Including the M/V New London Eagle, the Company’s fleet will consist of 47 vessels, including 12 Ultramaxes acquired over the last 12 months. Eagle Bulk Shipping Inc. is a Marshall Islands corporation headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. Eagle Bulk owns one of the largest fleets of Supramax/Ultramax dry bulk vessels in the world.

Diana Shipping Inc. today announced that, through a wholly-owned subsidiary, it provided a notice of cancellation of the shipbuilding contract with Yangzhou Dayang Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Sinopacific International Trade Co., Ltd., dated January 8, 2014 (the “Contract”), and Addendum No. 1 to the Contract dated April 21, 2014 with Sumec Marine Co., Ltd. with respect to a Kamsarmax dry bulk carrier, Hull No. DY6006, with an original delivery date of May 31, 2016. The Company has exercised its right under the Contract to cancel the Contract due to a delay in delivery of 150 days after the original delivery date and to claim…

Diana Shipping Inc., a global shipping company specializing in the ownership of dry bulk vessels, signed, through a separate wholly owned subsidiary, a shipbuilding contract with Yangzhou Dayang Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Sinopacific International Trade Co., Ltd., for the construction of a Kamsarmax dry bulk vessel of approximately 82,000 dwt for a contract price of $28,824,900.The company expects to take delivery of the vessel during the second quarter of 2016. Excluding the aforementioned vessel, as well as two new-building Ice Class Panamax dry bulk vessels expected to be delivered to the company during the first quarter of 2014 and two newbuilding Newcastlemax dry bulk vessels expected to be delivered to the Company during the second quarter of 2016…

Diana Shipping Inc., a shipping company specializing in the ownership of dry bulk vessels, has announced that it has signed, through a separate wholly owned subsidiary, a shipbuilding contract with Yangzhou Dayang Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Sinopacific International Trade Co., Ltd., for the construction of a Kamsarmax dry bulk vessel of approximately 82,000 dwt for a contract price of US$28,824,900. The Company expects to take delivery of the vessel during the second quarter of 2016. Excluding the aforementioned vessel, as well as 2 new-building Ice Class Panamax dry bulk vessels expected to be delivered to the Company during the first quarter of 2014 and 2 new-building Newcastlemax dry bulk vessels expected to be delivered to the Company during the second quarter of 2016…

MHI will provide technological support to Sinopacific in the area of commercial vessel construction. MHI is currently promoting expansion of its engineering business mainly through licensing of technology, while Sinopacific is taking steps to strengthen its shipbuilding business through introduction of technologies from advanced shipbuilders. The respective aims of the two companies thus coincide. As their first collaborative work, the two firms will jointly develop an 82…

Eagle Bulk Shipping Inc. exercised options for the construction of four 58,000 dwt Supramax vessels from the Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group, the parent of the Yangzhou Dayang Shipbuilding Co. at a contract price of $42.3 million per vessel. The availability of these options was initially reported by Eagle Bulk on August 7, 2007. The addition of these vessels to the Eagle fleet increases the total fleet size to 53 vessels, expands capacity to 2.93 million deadweight tons, and improves the fleet's efficiency by increasing the sister ship total to 45 vessels.