The Iwagi Island, a 590-foot-long Handymax bulk carrier built in Imabari, Japan, stopped at the Port of Vancouver on Friday on its maiden voyage. The Iwagi Island departed Japan for the U.S. in ...

The acquisition of M.V. Houma Belle, which was announced in April 2008, is a 1985 built, 42,219 dwt handymax bulk carrier that the Company agreed to acquire for $34 million charter free.

Pacific Basin Shipping is seeking to buy more Handysize and Handymax ships to go 'broad and deep into the segment', in which it is already one of the world's largest operators of Handysize tonnage.

The global push for decarbonization in the transport sector has predictably inspired a wave of new designs for the shipping sector, including a new 'Zero-Emission Handymax Bulker' design from the ...

Deputy chairman Richard Hext said the move into the handymax sector - vessels in the 40,000 to 50,000 deadweight-tonne range - was being driven by a portion of its client base that required the ...