The shares of Danaos Corporation commenced trading on the New York Stock Exchange as of Friday, October 6, 2006. With a market capitalization of approximately $1.2b and a current fleet of 27 containerships aggregating 116,115 TEUs, Danaos becomes the largest U.S. listed containership company in terms of fleet size and market capitalization and ranks among the largest containership charter owners in the world. Furthermore, the company has on order 16 additional containerships aggregating 84,704 TEUs with scheduled deliveries up to the end of 2009, all of which are already chartered to major companies for 12 years. On Thursday, October 5 the company priced its Initial Public Offering of 10…