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Vessels (Details) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	6 Months Ended						6 Months Ended
	Jun. 30, 2013	Jun. 30, 2012	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Mar. 20, 2013 Hercules Container Carrier Sa	Mar. 27, 2013 Iason Container Carrier Sa	Jun. 30, 2012 M/T Attikos	Jun. 30, 2012 M/T Aristofanis	Dec. 22, 2012 M/V Agamemnon	Dec. 22, 2012 M/V Archimidis
Property Plant And Equipment [Line Items]
Fair value of vessels acquired					$ 54,000	$ 54,000			$ 68,000	$ 65,000
Date of vessel sale							Feb. 14, 2012	Apr. 04, 2012
DWT							12,000	12,000
Year built							2005	2005
Net proceeds from sale of vessel	0	19,675					9,807	9,868
Gain on vessel disposal	0	1,296					943	353
Vessel carrying value	$ 1,042,900		$ 959,550	$ 1,073,986			$ 8,864	$ 9,514

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The fair value of the vessel at the time of the acquisition.

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The cash proceeds net of commissions and expenses from the sale of vessels.

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The vessel's size in DWT.

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This element represents vessels' book value, net of accumulated depreciation.

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The year that the vessel was built.

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Amount of gain (loss) on sale or disposal of property, plant and equipment assets, including oil and gas property and timber property.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 230

-SubTopic 10

-Section 45

-Paragraph 28

-Subparagraph (b)

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=31042434&loc=d3e3602-108585

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Date of acquisition or disposal, in CCYY-MM-DD format.

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