There still remains no confirmation of DHT Holdings’s $590m purchase of seven VLCCs from Samco nearly three months after TradeWinds reported the deal.

While calmer heads closer to the transaction have pointed to accounting issues as the reason, the delay has only encouraged rumours of darker problems.

Now even equity analysts seem to be growing a bit impatient.

Such was the case last week with Evercore Partners’s Jonathan Chappell, who openly expressed disappointment that developments were not updated in DHT’s second-quarter earnings release or the ensuing investor call.

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