Broking reports detail the tanker as having gone to an undisclosed buyer for $67m including a one-year time-charter deal.
“We have no plan to sell the ship,” said an executive at Meiji. “The information has been misreported.”
London broker Clarksons lists Meiji as the head owner of the Tsushima. But the company says it is registered under Tohmei Kaiun, a subsidiary.
Market players say the current charterer is South Korea’s SK Energy, which has had it on hire from NYK for seven years at around $39,000 per day since the end of 2008.
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