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Courage Marine does better with time charters

Courage Marine does better with time charters
Better performance in its marine transport division helped Courage Marine to narrow its losses in the first half but most of the gains came mainly from one-off items in its property investments arm.

It said in a stock market announcement that revenue from the marine transportation segment plunged by almost half to $$845,000 from $1.7m previously but losses also significantly narrowed to $197,000 as Courage Marine switched to mainly time charters for its two vessels from February.

Based on current time charter contracts Courage Marine expects to see a utilisation rate of 90% for the rest of the year. It however warned that the market outlook remains challenging with a volatile BDI.