Did Costamare Just Make a Huge Mistake?

For the longest time, Monaco-based (NYSE: CMRE) was known as a containership operator -- a good one, to be sure. For as far back as S&P Global Market Intelligence keeps records, the company has never reported a money-losing year -- but still, a containership operator plain and simple.

That may no longer be the case.

In June 2021, Costamare began dipping its toe in the dry bulk shipping sector, announcing the acquisition of 16 used dry bulk ships with an average age of about 10 years. In subsequent quarters, the company has grown this part of its fleet, and late last year, it announced that it had made a "strategic decision" to "enter the dry bulk sector at an opportune time in the cycle." Henceforth, Costamare will ship containerized cargo on the one hand, while its other hand busies itself transporting piles of iron pellets, coal, grain, and similar dry bulk cargoes.    

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