Emanuele A. Lauro, Chairman and also Chief Executive Officer, Scorpio Bulkers
[UPDATED] Emanuele A. Lauro ledScorpio Bulkers Inc (NYSE: SALT) has actually concurred the sale of an additional 2 bulkerx as it advances the course to change that it started in August when it revealed it had actually authorized a letter of intent (LOI) with South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding and also Marine Engineering Inc, covering the building of a huge Wind Turbine Installation Vessel (WTIV) with choices for 3 added vessels.
Tuesday,, the business reported that the most recent vessel sale it had actually concurred is that of the SBI Tethys, an Ultramax mass provider constructed in 2016, for about $18.25 million.Then on Wednesday, it claimed it had actually accepted market the SBI Orion, an Ultramax mass provider constructed in 2015, for about $16.1 million.Delivery of the vessel is anticipated to occur in the very first quarter of 2021.
The business has actually just recently marketed 8 vessels and also has actually currently acquired to market fourteen added vessels, every one of which are anticipated to enclose the very first fifty percent of 2021.
On conclusion of these sales, Scorpio Bulkers will certainly have an operating fleet of 33 vessels containing 28 wholly-owned or financing rented drybulk vessels (consisting of 8 Kamsarmax vessels and also 20 Ultramax vessels), and also 5 time chartered-in Kamsarmax vessels.
