{"id":34232,"date":"2023-06-30T02:34:14","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T23:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/bahri-lets-go-of-ageing-vlcc\/34232\/"},"modified":"2023-06-30T02:34:14","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T23:34:14","slug":"bahri-lets-go-of-ageing-vlcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/bahri-lets-go-of-ageing-vlcc\/34232\/","title":{"rendered":"Bahri lets go of ageing VLCC"},"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>Saudi Arabia\u2019s top shipping line, Bahri, has offloaded one of its oldest very large crude carriers (VLCCs).<\/p>\n<p>The Riyadh-based tanker giant is said to have sold the 2003-built<br \/>\n\t\t\t<span style=\"color:#00adeb;\" class=\"mt_tooltip\" data-mturl=\"\/en\/ais\/details\/ships\/shipid:753172\/mmsi:403799000\/vessel:753172\" data-info=\"LULU [SA]\" data-photourl=\"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/file\/2023\/06\/Bahri-lets-go-of-ageing-VLCC.aspx.jpeg\" data-assetname=\"9237797\" data-assettype=\"IMO number\">Lulu<\/span> to an undisclosed Chinese buyer for $42.5m.<\/p>\n<p>Established in 1978, Bahri is one of the world\u2019s largest owners and operators of VLCCs with around 40 ships.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-in-post-middle\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<p>The 316,500 dwt <em>Lulu<\/em> was the company\u2019s fourth oldest unit and worth around $44.5m according to VesselsValue data. Bahri\u2019s oldest VLCC the 2001 Samsung-built <em>Harad<\/em> is estimated to be worth $41.6m, up from around $29m same time last year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-after-post\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class=\"stream-item-size\" style=\"\">\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>\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\/saudi-arabia\/\" rel=\"tag\">Saudi Arabia<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>splash247<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia\u2019s top shipping line, Bahri, has offloaded one of its oldest very large crude carriers (VLCCs). The Riyadh-based tanker giant is said to have sold the 2003-built Lulu to an undisclosed Chinese buyer for $42.5m. Established in 1978, Bahri is one of the world\u2019s largest owners and operators of VLCCs with around 40 ships. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34232","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\/34232","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=34232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/34233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}