{"id":155907,"date":"2025-11-23T20:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T20:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/155907\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T20:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T20:01:08","slug":"pyxis-tankers-sets-sights-on-fresh-tonnage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/155907\/","title":{"rendered":"Pyxis Tankers sets sights on fresh tonnage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"780\" height=\"470\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Pyxis-Theta-780x470.jpg\" class=\"attachment-jannah-image-post size-jannah-image-post wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" data-main-img=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Pyxis Tankers <\/p>\n<p>Greece\u2019s Pyxis Tankers is preparing for its next round of fleet expansion, planning to acquire at least three ships by the end of next year as financing lines open up.<\/p>\n<p>The Nasdaq-listed owner said it is keeping a cautious stance amid volatile macroeconomic and geopolitical conditions but sees attractive buying opportunities ahead in both the product tanker and dry bulk sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Management said the refinancing of two tankers, set to close in December 2025, will free up an additional $10m in cash. Combined with a previously secured \u201chunting license\u201d loan facility of up to $45m, Pyxis expects to have the firepower to \u201cpromptly fund the possible acquisition of at least three vessels by January 2027.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the Valentios (Eddie) Valentis-led company signalled its appetite for expansion when it secured a commitment letter for the $45m facility. At the time, Pyxis said it was targeting modern product tankers between 45,000 dwt and 115,000 dwt, or bulk carriers between 60,000 dwt and 85,000 dwt.<\/p>\n<p>Pyxis currently counts six vessels in its portfolio \u2014 three product tankers and three bulkers\u2014built between 2013 and 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pyxis Tankers Greece\u2019s Pyxis Tankers is preparing for its next round of fleet expansion, planning to acquire at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2917,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-155907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-greece","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}