AEC has successfully followed though with the strategy plan, creating a fleet of large Eco Bulk Carriers with modern specifications and double hull.

‘Hard work and dedication, in combination with corporate governance, has made it possible for AEC to reach yet another milestone’ says Mr. Thomas Mayr, Head of AEC’s S & P department . ‘Japan is, and will also in the future, be a very important market for our company’.

‘We are very particular with our vessels specifications and a huge amount of time and efforts are put into every project we are involved in. We are pleased that we have contract partners that understand and appreciate the need for professionalism when it comes to large acquisitions’ Mr. Mayr continues.

 

The AEC Chartering and Operations departments are very much involved in what is happening on the S & P side. We are constantly giving valid input’ says Mr. Jesper Lollesgaard, AEC’s Handysize Chartering Manager in London. ‘We are excited about the confirmed high specifications of the AEC fleet’ Mr. Lollesgaard continues.

 

 

 

AEC chartered in Messrs Fednav’s vessel MV Federal Kibune (36,824dwt Built 2012) to carry a cargo of bulk wheat to from Sorel, Canada to Brazil.

With Messrs D.S. Norden, AEC chartered in MV Nord Soul (36,781dwt Built 2010) for a trip from the Mediterranean to Brazil and in turn chartered out AEC’s period vessel MV Four Diamond (34,53dwt Built 2011) for balance period.

‘We are pleased with the good relationships we have built around the world, which allow us to effectively arbitrate our requirements and fleet’ says Mr Jesper Lollesgaard, Chartering Manager at AEC, London.

Mv Four Diamond

Effective from the 15th of April 2013 AEC has engaged Mr. Andrew Thompson in the Chartering department. Mr. Thompson comes with decades of Drybulk Chartering experience and will work for AEC from London.

“We are pleased with Andrew as an addition to our Chartering team and believe he is the right match for AEC and for the expansion of our Chartering activities”, says CEO Lars-Peter Madsen. “With Andrew’s knowledge and experience we are further strengthening AEC’s strategically presence in London and our Chartering approach as a whole”

The long term AEC period vessel, MV Four Diamond, 34,053 dwat Box Shaped Bulker, Built 2011, discharged a full cargo of Petcoke in Teesport on the River Tees. The discharging was performed with shore cranes and grabs via hoppers into trucks.
The cargo had been loaded in Wilmington, Delaware for account Messrs Energy.

After Teesport the vessel proceeded to Belgium to load Steel Products for the U.S. Gulf.

 

MV Four Diamond berthed ‘starboard to’ at Teesport

 

Portside view

 

Discharging into hoppers

 

All hatches open