Tata Steel shoots up on its shipping arm planing to acquire 2 new ships

01 Dec 2011 Evaluate

Tata Steel is currently trading at Rs. 406.10, up by 21.20 points or 5.51% from its previous closing of Rs. 384.90 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 400.05 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 410.00 and Rs. 400.00 respectively. So far 949361 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs. 10 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 713.80 on 04-Jan-2011 and a 52 week low of Rs. 367.20 on 24-Nov-2011.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 410.00 and Rs. 372.25 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 36920.16 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 30.71% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 42.38% and 24.39% respectively.

Tata Steel’s step-down subsidiary - International Shipping and Logistics is likely to buy two ships for about $50 million. Earlier the company was planning to chartering vessels for its clients, but has now decided to own ships. The capacity of each Handysize bulk carrier is around 35,000 dead weight tonne (DWT).

International Shipping is evaluating shipyards in China, Japan and Korea to build the ships and expected to close the deal in six months. It annually charters nearly 150 vessels, mainly of Handysize range, for duration ranging from one month to three months.

The company was formed mainly to handle cargo for Tata Steel. However, the focus gradually shifted towards other customers so much so that last year out of the 5.3 million tonne of cargo handled, nearly 98% was handled for non-Tata Steel customers.

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