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of Friend International Shipping it orders two new tanker Handysize
The store clerk to Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Co. he has a total value of 73,2 million dollars
April 3, 2014
of Friend International Shipping (DIS), controlled of Friendly Society of Navigation, through operating controlled own of Friend Tankers Limited (Ireland) it has ordered to the Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Co. South Korean the construction of ulterior two tankers Handysize of 50.000 tons of gross door to the unit price of 36,6 million dollars. The new ships unit "ECHO Design" of last generation will be characterized for an elevated economy of the consumption that will afford the 6-7 saving tons to the fuel day regarding the average of the fleet of existing MR/Handysize. Moreover the new tanker will allow also the contemporary transport of 8-9 various cargos of producing for travel, having improved the operating flexibility.
The two ships will be constructed by Hyundai Mipo Dockyard near its ship yards in Vietnam, with the advising of the naval engineers of the group of Friend, and their delivery is previewed at the end of 2016.
"The follow-up of the started strategy of newbuilding already for a long time from DIS - the managing director of Friend International Shipping has commented, Marco Fiori - remains for the society a focal point also in 2014. To insert in the fleet new able ships to transport more in safety produced at the same time, containing the costs and taking into consideration a reduced environmental impact, us is not profitable alone mainly competitive to international level, but it demonstrates also the ability to the company to interpret in punctual way the new ones must of the market".
Currently the fleet of Friend Tankers Limited is composed from 40,5 tankers (medium range - MR and Handysize) all to double hull with a medium age 5,6-year-old (of which 21 ships of property and 19,5 ships in Time charter), comprised four new tankers Echo design delivered to January and February 2014. Moreover the company under construction has near Hyundai Mipo Dockyard nine tankers Echo design, of which five MR and four Handysize. It is moreover in course the construction, always by the South Korean shipbuilding society, of an ulterior joint venture tanker in with Venice and Shipping Logistics.
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of Friend International Shipping (DIS), controlled of Friendly Society of Navigation, through operating controlled own of Friend Tankers Limited (Ireland) it has ordered to the Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Co. South Korean the construction of ulterior two tankers Handysize of 50.000 tons of gross door to the unit price of 36,6 million dollars. The new ships unit "ECHO Design" of last generation will be characterized for an elevated economy of the consumption that will afford the 6-7 saving tons to the fuel day regarding the average of the fleet of existing MR/Handysize. Moreover the new tanker will allow also the contemporary transport of 8-9 various cargos of producing for travel, having improved the operating flexibility.
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