Costamare Inc. (NYSE:CMRE) is a Greek and Marshall Islands corporation and one of the world’s leading owners and providers of containerships for charter. Its headquarters are in Athens, Greece. Costamare Inc. has 37 years of history in the international shipping industry and a fleet of 56 containerships, with a total capacity of approximately 326,000 twenty foot equivalent units (TEU) including 10 newbuild containerships on order.

The company’s strategy is to time-charter its containerships to a geographically diverse, financially strong and loyal group of leading liner companies. The containerships operate primarily under multi-year time charters and therefore are not subject to the effect of seasonal variations in demand.

In 2000 it controlled 21 ships, in 2008, 53, and 43 in 2010. As of Oct 2018 it had 74 ships with 16 vessels in new or extended time charters.