New Tanker Delivery for Ardmore Shipping

Ardmore Shipping Corporation has introduced that its newest newbuild vessel, the Ardmore Seafox, was delivered by SPP Shipbuilding Co., Ltd from the Sacheon shipyard in Korea on 25 June 2015.

The Ardmore Seafox is a 49,999 DWT IMO 3 product and chemical tanker, and her addition to the Ardmore fleet will increase the variety of Ardmore vessels on the water to twenty with a complete tonnage of 819,519 DWT. Technical administration of the Ardmore Seafox shall be supplied by Univan Ship Management Ltd.

“We are pleased to take delivery of this sister ship to the Ardmore Sealion and we extend our thanks to SPP Shipbuilding for their hard work and dedication throughout the build process,” mentioned Mark Cameron, Ardmore Shipping’s COO. “The addition of the Ardmore Seafox realizes our continued dedication to incorporating prime quality, fashionable and environment friendly vessels to our fleet.

As with the Ardmore Sealion, the Ardmore Seafox is a top quality eco-design Ardmore vessel, absolutely outfitted with quite a lot of fuel-saving measures together with Skysails expertise and providing the best requirements of efficiency for our clients. With a mean age of beneath 4 and a half years, the Ardmore fleet is among the many youngest within the trade.

This is the second of 4 newbuild vessels to be delivered from SPP Shipbuilding this 12 months and we stay up for persevering with to work intently with SPP Shipbuilding on the remaining two vessels within the collection due for supply within the second half of this 12 months. We want the Ardmore Seafox and her crew protected seas and truthful winds as she goes on to satisfy her lengthy and profitable service inside the Ardmore fleet.”