NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwire) -- 06/29/09 -- Capital Link, Inc., a New York based Investor Relations and Advisory firm with a strategic focus on shipping, announced the launching of a series of stockmarket Maritime Indices.

The Indices track the performance of the stocks of listed shipping companies as follows:

Capital Link Maritime                           Focus
     Indices
                           Main Index
Capital Link Maritime Index      Includes all US listed shipping companies
                         Sector Indices
Capital Link Dry Bulk Index      Includes all US listed Dry Bulk companies
Capital Link Tanker Index        Includes all US listed Tanker companies
Capital Link Container Index     Includes all US listed container shipping
                                  companies
Capital Link LNG / LPG Index     Includes all US listed LNG / LPG companies
Capital Link Mixed Fleet Index   Includes all US listed companies operating
                                  in more than one sector
Capital Link Maritime MLP Index  Includes all US listed shipping MPLs

Nicolas Bornozis, President of Capital Link, stated: "The objective of these indices is to enable investors, as well as all shipping market participants, to better track the performance of individual listed shipping stocks, as well as of the shipping industry and specific sectors. The Indices currently focus only on companies listed on US Exchanges, as the United States is by far the largest and most liquid market for listed shipping companies with a large and established peer group and with a well developed analyst and investor base."

Index Methodology:

The indices are calculated daily and are based on the market capitalization weighting of the stocks in each index.

All US listed companies are included in the main index, the Capital Link Maritime Index. Besides the main index (Capital Link Maritime Index), a company may be also included in additional indices, the sector index, where it primarily operates, and the mixed fleet index or the MLP Index, if and as long as it qualifies for such inclusion.

Companies that operate sixty or more percent of their total fleet in a single sector are also included in that sector index. Companies that operate a minimum of one third of their total fleet in other sectors are also included in the mixed fleet index.

Companies that have been delisted are included in the Indices for the period they were listed.