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of Friend International Shipping it acquires a contract for a new tanker
The decision - it has explained DIS - is motivated by the strong question by the Oil Majors
March 24, 2014
of Friend International Shipping (DIS), society controlled from the Italian of Friendly Society of Navigation, has announced that operating own controlled of Friend Tankers Limited (Ireland) and Hudson Partners LLC - Connecticut, Echo has decided of common agreement not to give in May keeps on the agreed letter of attempts for the subjective novation of the relative contract to the construction of the new tanker "tidy design" 2013 to the South Korean yard Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Co. with delivery previewed in fourth trimester 2015 ( on 16 May 2013). , than confirmation positive forecasts on the market for such type of ships, and the consequent necessity to increase the fleet of DIS property. In concluding the agreement, of Friend Tankers and Hudson Partners has fixed the value of the ship to 35,5 million dollars.
Today the fleet of Tankers Friend is composed from 40,5 tankers of the medium age 5,6-year-old, of which 21 ships of property and 19,5 ships in Time charter. Currently of Tankers Friend it has nine new tankers under construction near the Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Co. yard; moreover the company always has a contract for the construction near the same yard of an ulterior joint venture tanker in with Venice and Shipping Logistics Spa.
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