TBS SHIPPING SERVICES

TBS is a fully-integrated transportation service company that offers customers the TBS “Five Star Service” consisting of: ocean transportation, operations, logistics, port services, and strategic planning. We offer liner, parcel, bulk, and chartering services, supported by a fleet of multipurpose tweendeckers and handysize and handymax bulk carriers, including specialized heavy-lift vessels.

Over the past 15 years, we have developed a major presence in selected markets, operating our vessels on five trade routes between Latin America and Japan, South Korea and China, as well as ports in North America, the Middle East, Africa, and the Caribbean.

TBS' fleet is comprised of 47 vessels with an aggregate of 1.4 million dwt, consisting of 24 multipurpose tweendeckers and 23 handysize/handymax bulk carriers. In addition, TBS has on order with Chinese shipyards six Roymar Class 34,000 dwt multipurpose vessels with retractable tweendecks, of which two are scheduled for delivery in 2009 and four in 2010.