The Oslo-listed spin-off of Singapore-based offshore vesselowner Ezra Holdings sold the Lewek Champion (built 2007) to Chinese bank ICBCfor $200m in February.

It booked a $36.4m gain from the arrangement which waslargely responsible for pushing net profit to $44m from $1.4m in the secondquarter of 2013.

Increased contributions from its core operations also playeda key role in boosting earnings in the three months ended 28 February comparedto same period a year earlier.