BLE vs PANL Comparison

Blackrock Municipal Income Trust II is a perpetual closed-end municipal bond fund. Its objective is to provide a high current income exempt from federal income taxes. The fund invests a majority of its managed assets in municipal obligations issued by or on behalf of states, territories, and possessions of the United States and their political subdivisions, agencies, or instrumentalities (Municipal Bonds), the interest of which is exempt from regular federal income tax (except that the interest may be subject to the alternative minimum tax).

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.