{"id":16042,"date":"2020-08-22T00:55:19","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T21:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/final-scrubber-fitted-vlcc-newbuild-joins-hunter-tankers-fleet\/16042\/"},"modified":"2020-08-22T00:55:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T21:55:19","slug":"final-scrubber-fitted-vlcc-newbuild-joins-hunter-tankers-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/final-scrubber-fitted-vlcc-newbuild-joins-hunter-tankers-fleet\/16042\/","title":{"rendered":"Final scrubber-fitted VLCC newbuild joins Hunter Tankers\u2019 fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.offshorewind.biz\/file\/sites\/6\/2020\/08\/21093053\/Hunter-Frigg-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Hunter Frigg\" class=\"wp-image-382036\" \/><figcaption>Image courtesy: Hunter Group<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-intro-font-size\">Oslo-listed shipowner Hunter Tankers AS,  a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hunter Group ASA, has taken delivery of Hunter Frigg, the seventh&nbsp;scrubber-fitted ECO design VLCC newbuilding.<\/p>\n<p>The vessel was&nbsp;delivered by Daewoo Shipbuilding &amp; Marine Engineering (DSME) in South Korea, and marks the end of the company&#8217;s newbuilding program. <\/p>\n<p>The company revealed that Hunter Frigg was recently fixed for 6-8 months at $ 40,000 per day, and will commence&nbsp;the time charter following delivery from the yard. <\/p>\n<p>The delivery is being announced on the back of the company&#8217;s completion of sale-and-leaseback agreements with SFL Corporation Ltd.&nbsp;that enabled it to repurchase&nbsp;Hunter&nbsp;Atla and&nbsp;Hunter&nbsp;Saga for a combined amount of approx. $ 117.8 million.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter used $ 100.4 million of the $157.5 million loan facility with Danske Bank, DNB, Nordea and SEB to finance the deal.<\/p>\n<p>The company has seven VLCCs in its fleet, which will be managed by  \u00a0Norwegian ship\u00a0<em>management<\/em>\u00a0company OSM Maritime Group. <\/p>\n<p>Hunter Group initially ordered eight identical VLCCs at DSME, fitted with scrubbers from W\u00e4rtsil\u00e4, paying around $86 million per ship. <\/p>\n<p>However, the shipowner sold one sister vessel in the first quarter of 2020 for $98 million.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.offshore-energy.biz\/final-scrubber-fitted-vlcc-newbuild-joins-hunter-tankers-fleet\/\">Final scrubber-fitted VLCC newbuild joins Hunter Tankers&#8217; fleet<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.offshore-energy.biz\">Offshore Energy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>world maritime news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image courtesy: Hunter Group Oslo-listed shipowner Hunter Tankers AS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hunter Group ASA, has taken delivery of Hunter Frigg, the seventh&nbsp;scrubber-fitted ECO design VLCC newbuilding. The vessel was&nbsp;delivered by Daewoo Shipbuilding &amp; Marine Engineering (DSME) in South Korea, and marks the end of the company&#8217;s newbuilding program. The company revealed that Hunter &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[3257,1973,1378,1884,1386,2918,198,120],"class_list":["post-16042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-final","tag-fleet","tag-hunter","tag-joins","tag-newbuild","tag-scrubberfitted","tag-tankers","tag-vlcc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/16043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}