A US bankruptcy judge has approved a plan of reorganisation for VLCC owner Windsor Petroleum and set a date next month for a vote on the project.

Windsor — an offshoot of John Fredriksen’s International Tanker Co (ITC) — filed for Chapter 11 reorganisation in Delaware in July, so its path to emergence has been short.

Under the reorganisation plan, bondholders are to exchange their $196m in notes for a 100% stake in the company.

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