"We have now secured committed financing for 52 of our 79 newbuildings, and we are comfortable and confident the remaining 27 will have committed financing in place by the end of this year as we have promised our shareholders," said Hugh Baker, SALT chief financial officer, in a brief interview.

Scorpio this morning announced it had a new $540m credit facility led by two unnamed European banks that would cover 24 ships at 55% debt ratio.

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