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Note 8 - Vessels | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2014
Property, Plant and Equipment [Abstract] |
Property, Plant and Equipment Disclosure [Text Block] |
8. | Vessels:
The amounts in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets are analyzed as follows:
|  | Vessel Cost |  |  | Accumulated Depreciation |  |  | Net Book Value |
Balance, December 31, 2013 |  |  | - |  |  |  | - |  |  |  | - |
—Additions |  |  | 38,958 |  |  |  | - |  |  |  | 38,958 |
—Depreciation |  |  | - |  |  |  | (39 | ) |  |  | (39 | )
Balance, June 30, 2014 |  |  | 38,958 |  |  |  | (39 | ) |  |  | 38,919 |
In June 20, 2014 Monte Carlo 71 Shipping Company Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, acquired from Million Hope Maritime SA, a company affiliated with the Company's President, Chief Executive Officer and Director, Evangelos J. Pistiolis, vessel Hull No S406, for an aggregate purchase price of $38,250, as per a Memorandum Of Agreement signed in February 2014. The Company renamed Hull No S406 to M/T Eships Taweelah. The Company capitalized an amount of $708, as other capitalized expenses, including 1% brokerage commission, relating to the acquisition of the vessel.

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- Definition The entire disclosure for long-lived, physical assets used in the normal conduct of business and not intended for resale. Includes, but is not limited to, accounting policies and methodology, roll forwards, depreciation, depletion and amortization expense, including composite depreciation, accumulated depreciation, depletion and amortization expense, useful lives and method used, income statement disclosures, assets held for sale and public utility disclosures. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 360 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6391035&loc=d3e2868-110229 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 360 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 2 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6391110&loc=d3e2921-110230 Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 205 -SubTopic 20 -Section 50 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6360339&loc=d3e1361-107760 Reference 4: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 210 -SubTopic 10 -Section S99 -Paragraph 1 -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02.13-14) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6877327&loc=d3e13212-122682 + Details
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