Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp. announced today that it has entered into an agreement with MUR Shipping BV to extend the time charter party for the Company’s Handysize vessel M/V African Joy, in direct continuation from the end of the minimum period of the previous time charter party of the vessel with MUR.
The charter has been extended for a period of eleven to thirteen months at a gross charter rate linked to the adjusted Time Charter Average of the Baltic Handysize Index (BHSI).
As a result of this extension, the Company has time charter arrangements covering 74% of its ownership days for 2012 and 22% for 2013. The M/V African Joy is a 26,482 dwt Handysize dry bulk carrier built in 1996.
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World Maritime News Staff, February 27, 2012