New York-listed Scorpio has fixed the LR2, which is slated for delivery in January 2015, for an initial year.
The ship will collect $21,050 per day from the firm part of the deal, which has a one-year option priced at $22,600 daily.
Emanuele Lauro, chief executive of Scorpio Tankers, told a conference in London this week that boosting the company’s LR fleet would take precedence over adding to its more substantial MR portfolio.
However,
