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of Tankers Friend it orders to four new tankers Handysize
They will be constructed by Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Co.
October 25, 2013
of Friend International Shipping (DIS), through operating controlled own of Friend Tankers Limited (Ireland), it has ordered to the construction of ulterior four tankers Handysize of 39.000 gross capacities in tons to the South Korean ship yard Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Co. to the unit price of 31,2 million dollars. The ships will be delivered to November 2015 and April, July and October 2016. The contract contemplates an option for the adaptation of the four ships in class ICE IB to a cost of 963.000 dollars for each ship.
Today the fleet of Tankers Friend comprises 37,5 tankers (Medium Range - MR and Handysize Product Tankers) all to double hull, with a medium age 6,1-year-old. The society has moreover undersigned, always with Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Co., contracts for the construction of 12 new ships ECHO, of which you are MR and six Handysize, and recently has concluded a contract for the construction of a joint venture ship in with the Venice Shipping and Logistics Spa.
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