{"id":31100,"date":"2022-08-16T14:04:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T11:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/ridgebury-in-significant-fleet-sell-off\/31100\/"},"modified":"2022-08-16T14:04:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T11:04:32","slug":"ridgebury-in-significant-fleet-sell-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/ridgebury-in-significant-fleet-sell-off\/31100\/","title":{"rendered":"Ridgebury in significant fleet sell-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content entry clearfix\">\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-before-post\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<p>Connecticut-based Ridgebury Tankers is the most notable tanker player in the S&amp;P markets this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The outfit is reportedly bringing in more than $100m, money that will be used to renew its ageing fleet. Seven sales have been reported this far, the latest being the 2013-built Samsung-built suezmax <em>Ridgebury Lessley B<\/em>, sold for some $45m to Greek owner Thenamaris.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple sources also report the sale of three 50,000 dwt product tankers built in 2009, all sold for $22m each. The ships are named <em>Ridgebury Alexandra Z<\/em>, <em>Ridgebury Cindy M<\/em>, and <em>Ridgebury Rosemary<\/em>. An unidentified Turkish buyer is tied to the trio.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-in-post-middle\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<p>Bob Burke-led Ridgebury is also reported selling three other suezmaxes, two of these built at Universal in Japan. Brokers disagree who took the 2006-built- 146,500-dwt <em>Ridgebury Mary Selena<\/em> as it was reported sold to both Westport Tankers and Avin of Greece. In addition, the one year younger <em>Ridgebury Lindy B<\/em> is reported to have been sold to Stealth Maritime. A fourth suezmax has been sold privately, the 20-year-old, NKK-built <em>Ridgebury Astari<\/em>, renamed <em>Astari 1<\/em>. This ship is now in Dubai-based S21 Ship Management\u2019s fleet.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-after-post\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n\t    <!-- \/91333190\/SPLASH247_*_Splash247_Article_*_Strip_Slot_*_2 --><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2\">\n<script>\ngoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2'); });\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-bottom-meta post-bottom-tags post-tags-modern\">\n<div class=\"post-bottom-meta-title\"><span class=\"tie-icon-tags\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span> Tags<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tagcloud\"><a href=\"https:\/\/splash247.com\/tag\/united-states\/\" rel=\"tag\">United States<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>splash247<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connecticut-based Ridgebury Tankers is the most notable tanker player in the S&amp;P markets this summer. The outfit is reportedly bringing in more than $100m, money that will be used to renew its ageing fleet. Seven sales have been reported this far, the latest being the 2013-built Samsung-built suezmax Ridgebury Lessley B, sold for some $45m &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tanker-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31100","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=31100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/31101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}