Add DHT Holdings to the list of companies suffering scrubber difficulties due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Co-chief executive Trygve Munthe said on the VLCC owner's fourth-quarter conference call that the ships the company postponed to cash in on last year's tanker rally would be headed to a shipyard now, if not for the sickness sweeping China.

"Right now, the shipyards are not in a position to even do the scheduled work, let alone any additional tanker retrofits," Munthe said.