Sentence examples for value of ships from inspiring English sources

Broking transactions have increased but freight rates and the value of ships have fallen, reducing activity in Clarkson's financial division.

With the value of ships falling, however, lenders are now finding that ships are worth less than their loans.

Although freight volumes soon began to rise again, the glut kept growing and the value of ships continued to fall.By then banks had grown leery of the business.

In September 2003, the Baltic Exchange launched a "paper ships" index, which trades on the future cost of ships themselves, rather than future freight rates and, this autumn, they plan to launch a "demolition assessment" index, which will trade on the future scrap value of ships.

The chapter also explains the design value of ship response, design loads as per classification rules, etc.

Another bonus: The weaker dollar will be good both for commodity demand and for the asset values of ships.

Shipping firms are usually prepared to pay, because the sums are still low compared with the value of the ships.

The value of the ships themselves has fallen by 25-30%.

The rules let investors depreciate the value of the ships quickly, allowing them to get a "loss allocation" against taxes of 125% of their investment, while treating charter revenue as tax-free offshore income.

So much so that many of these companies are trading beneath the value of their ships.

"I think the reef idea could work, the scrap value of these ships is not enormous, it might be someone is interested in putting them down.