BKT vs PANL Comparison

Blackrock Income Trust Inc is a diversified investment fund with an investment objective to manage a portfolio of high-quality securities to achieve both preservations of capital and high monthly income. The trust seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing at least 65 percent of its assets in mortgage-backed securities. The Fund invests at least 80 percent of its assets in securities that are (i) issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government or one of its agencies or instrumentalities or (ii) rated at the time of investment either AAA by S&P Global Ratings (S&P) or Aaa by Moody's Investors Service, Inc (Moody's). The Fund may invest directly in such securities or synthetically through the use of derivatives.

Pangaea Logistics Solutions Ltd and its subsidiaries provide seaborne drybulk logistics and transportation services. It transports various drybulk cargoes including grains, coal, iron, ore, pig, iron, hot briquetted iron, bauxite, alumina, cement clinker, dolomite, and limestone. The company provides ocean transportation services to clients utilizing an ocean-going fleet of motor vessels in the Handymax, Supramax, Ultramax, Panamax, and Post-Panamax segments. Its services include cargo loading, cargo discharge, vessel chartering, voyage planning, and technical vessel management. The company derives all of its revenues from contracts of affreightment, voyage charters and time charters. Geographically, it derives key revenue from the United States, followed by Canada, Germany, and others.