Liberty For Lunch

We had the pleasure of attending this month’s CMA Luncheon, which featured Philip Shapiro the CEO of Liberty Maritime as the guest speaker. Mr. Shapiro spoke about Liberty, U.S. preference cargo and his recent cause celebre, piracy.

Liberty operates in two sectors: dry bulk and Ro/Ro. Its fleet consists of 3 Handymax bulkcarriers, 3 Panamax bulkcarriers and three Ro-Ro vessels with a fourth, a newbuilding, to be added in March of next year. The vessels operate in the U.S. preference trades carrying government impelled or military cargos. In the main, the government cargoes are food aid under PL 480

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