Diamond S Shipping Group News

Connecticut-headquartered Diamond S Shipping Group Inc. (DSG) announced that it has agreed to sell two of its 2008-built medium-range product carriers as part of its fleet renewal initiatives.The vessels - the Atlantic Aquarius and Atlantic Leo - are expected to be delivered in the third quarter or early the following quarter, said the owners and operators of crude and product tankers, which provide seaborne transportation of crude oil, refined petroleum and other products in international shipping markets.Diamond will recognize a non-cash charge of about $9.5 million per vessel this quarter, said a press note from the company.It expects…

Private equity has pumped $32 bln into shipping in past 2 years. Ships totaling 299 mln dwt to enter global fleet from May. Some private equity-backed shipping IPOs have been put off on weak sentiment. The shipping industry faces a looming capacity glut as billions of dollars pumped into it by private equity have stoked a vessel-buying spree, threatening its prospects just as the sector is emerging from its worst downturn in three decades. Backed by private equity and hedge fund financing, shipping companies have placed orders for thousands of new ships over the past two years, reminiscent of the ship-ordering binge of the mid-2000s that eventually led to overcapacity after the global financial crisis severely hit cargo demand.

Diamond S Shipping Group Inc's largest shareholder, Wilbur Ross, said the tanker company's initial public offering had been canceled because the suggested price was too low, Bloomberg reported, citing an email from the billionaire investor. "We are not opposed to being publicly owned but not at any price," Bloomberg quoted Ross as saying. The final proposal by the underwriters was not acceptable, he said. Ross's company, WL Ross & Co, owns a 32 percent stake in Diamond S Shipping. The tanker company had been scheduled to price its offering on Tuesday. The company said last month it planned to sell 14 million shares at between $14 and $16 each.

IPO investment firm Renaissance Capital said that Diamond S Shipping Group, a provider of seaborne transportation of refined petroleum and is backed by WL Ross, filed on Tuesday with the SEC to raise up to $100 million in an initial public offering. The Greenwich, Connecticut-based company, which was founded in 2013 and booked $178 million in sales for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2013, plans to list on the NYSE under the symbol DSG. Diamond S Shipping Group initially filed confidentially on September 18, 2013. Jefferies and BofA Merrill Lynch are the joint bookrunners on the deal.

Diamond S Shipping Group inform they have acquired three modern medium-range clean product tankers from funds managed by CarVal Investors. In the transaction, a group of funds managed by CarVal became a significant investor in the Diamond S clean product tanker business, and Ranjit Ahluwalia, managing director of CarVal, joined the Diamond S Board of Directors. Founded by Cargill Inc. in 198, CarVal Investors is a global investment fund manager. “With refined product exports from the U.S.