About Us
Krypton Maritime LLC, UAE mainland company, started to work purely for cash buying in 2016, The roots of Group date back to the year 2003.
Krypton Maritime LLC special purpose vehicle, for cash buying trade and developed with repeated transaction with ship owners, which gives us more strength and energy to approach ship owners.
Krypton Maritime Serving as a transaction intermediary agent company that works with ship owning companies and the ship recycling yards to complete the process of ship deliveries both logistically and financially. The business transactions are concluded on a cash basis with ship owners and by negotiating and discounting letters of credit issued by banks in India and Pakistan /Bangladesh with ship recycling yards. It is a critical requirement of this type of business part that we can rely on a first class network of banks for our business to ensure timely and seamless completion of the transactions.
Overview of Ship Recycling Market-
When a ship reaches the end of its working life it still has an inherent value for its scarp metal content. The principal markets for recycling are India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, China, and Turkey to a lesser extent. The countries are active in the recycling market as they possess all the requirements to make it economically viable.
The scrap price for vessels, like any other commodity, fluctuates with demand and supply. The demand for scrap is driven by around 300 recycling yards. The supply side of the market is driven by a combination of oil prices, freight/charter rates, and the aging profile of the vessel which will determine the viability of operating vessels of selling them for recycling.
The recycling market is actively supported by a large number of specialist shipbrokers who issue “in-house” market reports and keep buyers and sellers aware of the current scrap steel price levels and who actively match buyers and sellers.
It is very rare for a ship breaker/recycling yard to purchase a vessel directly from a shipowner, as due to the nature of their business, the scrap yards usually wish to pay for vessels on a deferred payment term under a letter of credit issues by their bankers, whereas the shipowner is required to be paid on a cash basis.
This impasse is resolved by trading companies (“cash buyers”) which stand between the ship owners and the recycling yards as principles in the transactions. The cash buyers pay the vessel owners cash for the vessels and are prepared to accept payment under letters of credit from the recycling yards.