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MOL and Hafnia Management give the go-ahead to the new pool Straits Tankers LR1 Pool
It will manage 25 product tanker LR1 of MOL, Marinvest, Rederi AB Gotland and Nordic Tankers
April 19, 2011
The next 1° May the shipowning group Japanese Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and the new Danish society Hafnia Management A/S, in which part of management of the Torm Danish is met, will constitute joint venture Straits Tankers Pte Ltd. with center to Singapore that will manage 25 ships commercially coated Long Range in the new pool Straits Tankers LR1 Pool, that he will have offices to Singapore and Copenhagen.
The pool will be equipped of product tanker LR1 of MOL, the Marinvest Swede (founder of Hafnia Management, on April 22, 2010) and of the compatriot Gotlandsbolaget (Rederi AB Gotland) and of the Danish Nordic Tankers. Moreover to the pool the United Arab Chemical Carriers (UACC) of Dubay will participate also.
"In consideration of the continuous economic challenges in the markets of tankers - president of Hafnia Management has commented, Lars Mossberg - the consolidation of the fleets it is the natural way to look ahead in order to answer with the increased requirements of the customers regarding the capacity of the services and meanwhile in order to optimize the operativity through economies of scale. It is a winning solution for all".
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