Profile: Safe Bulkers
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ppearing on the shipping horizon in 2007, Safe Bulkers was born from concepts that its founders developed with over 50 years of shipping experience. With an impressive portfolio it has established an enviable reputation in the industry providing marine dry bulk transportation services, transporting bulk cargoes, including coal, grain and iron ore along worldwide shipping routes as company’s president Dr Loukas Barmparis explained to Shipping and Marine:
“We are a company with long history gained over many shipping cycles. We operate under consistent policies through which we managed to create value for our shareholders and remained profitable and paid dividends in all consecutive quarters since our IPO back in 2008.� Safe Bulkers has tripled its fleet since then and currently owns 28 dry bulk vessels, with an aggregate carrying capacity of two and a half million deadweight tons. In November 2013 the average
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