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Scorpio Tankers orders the construction of six product tanker MR
They exercise options with the South Korean ship yards Hyundai Mipo Dockyard and SPP Shipbuilding
December 11, 2012
The shipowning society Monegasque Scorpio Tankers has exercised the options with the South Korean ship yard Hyundai Mipo Dockyard for the construction of two product tanker MR and has given moreover course to a letter of attempts with South Korean ship yard SPP Shipbuilding for the construction of other four ships of the same type.
The six new tankers will be taken in delivery in the second and the third trimester of 2014. Moreover the Monegasque company has agreed the price of ulterior options for the construction of others eight product tanker MR to the unitary costs of about 33 million dollars.
Currently the fleet of tankers of property of the Scorpio Tankers, that 4,7-year-old has a medium age, is constituted by a LR2, four LR1, a Handymax, five MR and a post-Panamax. Moreover the company work rental others 18 tankers and in existence has contracts for the construction of 11 units MR.
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