Scorpio Bulkers Goes Big Into Dry Bulk with $455 Million Newbuild Acquisition
The acquisition consists of eleven Ultramax dry bulk vessels of 60,000 DWT to 64,000 DWT and four Kamsarmax dry bulk vessels of 81,000 DWT to 84,000 DWT. The shipyards and delivery schedules are listed below:
Yard DWT Del'y 1 Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., LTD 60,200 Q2-16 2 Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., LTD 60,200 Q2-16 3 Imabari Shipbuilding Co., Ltd 61,000 Q2-15 4 Imabari Shipbuilding Co., Ltd 61,000 Q3-15 5 Imabari Shipbuilding Co., Ltd 61,000 Q4-15 6 Imabari Shipbuilding Co., Ltd 61,000 Q1-16 7 Nantong COSCO KHI Ship Engineering Co. Ltd 61,000 Q2-16 8 Nantong COSCO KHI Ship Engineering Co. Ltd 61,000 Q2-16 9 Chengxi Shipyard Co. Ltd 64,000 Q2-16 10 Chengxi Shipyard Co. Ltd 64,000 Q2-16 11 Chengxi Shipyard Co. Ltd 64,000 Q3-16 12 Tsuneishi Group (Zhoushan) Shipbuilding Inc. 81,600 Q3-15 13 Tsuneishi Group (Zhoushan) Shipbuilding Inc. 81,600 Q1-16 14 Imabari Shipbuilding Co., Ltd 84,000 Q1-15 15 Imabari Shipbuilding Co., Ltd 84,000 Q3-15
We spoke with Scorpio Bulkers CFO Hugh Baker this morning for additional comment and he notes that we are “clearly, very comfortable” with these particular sized ships, but other than that, he could not comment any further on the acquisition.
This order will be funded in part from the proceeds of a $300 million private placement of 33,400,000 new ordinary shares on the Oslo stock exchange last month.
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