Yasa Shipping is planning to expand its fleet but denies it has ordered suezmax tanker newbuildings worth more than $250m.
Emirhan Sabanci, son of Yasa founder Yalcin Sabanci, says talk that the company has inked up to four 160,000-dwt crude oil tankers at Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction (HHIC)’s Subic Bay facility in the Philippines is incorrect.
The deal was said to be for two firm ships, plus two options, with a reported price tag of between $63m and $64m apiece and deliveries slated for the end of 2016 and first half of 2017.
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