#NewTanker – Ardmore Shipping Corporation have acquired a 45,726 Dwt MR product tanker built in 2006 at Minami Nippon Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., Japan, for a purchase price of approximately $20.5 million.
According to EON News, the medium-range vessel is expected to be delivered to Ardmore in December 2013, and is intended to be employed either in the spot market or on a one-year time charter. The company plans to convert the vessel to Eco-Mod shortly after delivery.
Afloat.ie adds that the newly acquired vessel understood to be named Ardmore Seamaster will raise the Ardmore fleet to 21 vessels: nine in operation and 12 on order from three shipyards with deliveries commencing January 2014.
As previously reported the Ardmore Seafarer (2004/45,744dwt) which was completed as Zoa Express, was re-named in honour of seafarers in recognition of 2010 as the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) Year of the Seafarer.
Notably in that same year the crew of the Ardmore Seafarer came under the threat of pirates 1,000 nautical miles off Somalia and some 500 nm off the coast of India.
