Vard delivered the 272-tbp (AHTS) Far Sigma to theOslo-listed shipowner today from its Langsten shipyard.

Farstad also announced today it had secured financing forthe new AHTS from Eksportkreditt Norge in cooperation with GIEK and Nordea Bank.

The vessel was one of two ordered in March 2012 at a cost ofNOK 1.2bn ($210m) with the other set to join its ranks in the near future.

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