Dutch shipping company Van Ommeren bought Liberian bulk carrier Amax mariner according to the Dutch newspaper Het vrije volk dated 11 January 1980

An item reported that the Dutch shipping company Van Ommeren at Rotterdam bought the Liberian bulk carrier Amax Mariner with a loading capacity of 36.000 ton and yet not two years old and suitable for bulk stores, containers, pipes and packed wood. She was built in Japan and to be renamed Loosdrecht.(1)

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1. Built in 1978 at the shipyard of Mitsui Engineering&Shipbuilding Co., Chiba, Japan with yard number 1155. A deadweight of 36.071 tons, a gross tonnage of 22.517 ton and a capacity of 900 TEU. Dimensions 174,50 x 28,07 x 11,47 metres. The 11.600 hp allowed a speed of 15,5 miles. Chartered as the Victoria Bay by OCL between September 1987 and March 1988. Sold in 1998 to Cobo Bay Shipping SA, Manila, Philippines and renamed Lode Bay (until September 1992). Van Ommeren Shipping BV at Rotterdam still managed the ship. As the Barbican Spirit (until January 1994) in 1993 chartered by Barbican Lines. Sold a year later to the company Lode PTE Ltd. at Singapore and renamed Lode (until June) but the same year sold to the Columbia Maritime Corporation at Piraeus, Greece and renamed Cargo Emerald. In January 1997 became she as the Chian Emerald property of the Odin Maritime Corporation at Monrovia, Liberia and managed by Navios Shipmanagement Inc. Sold in June 2001 to the company Lara Navigation at Limassol, Cyprus and renamed in Tina M although Liberia-flagged and managed by V Ships Cyprus at Limassol, Cyprus. Finally in 2003 handed over to the Levant Maritime International S.A. and arrived on 14 August at Alang, India to be broken up. IMO 7706017. Call sign ELTP5.