February 26th, 2017 Grant Rowles Europe, Offshore 0 comments <\/p>\n
Norways Eidesvik Offshore has sold 2009-built offshore construction vessel Viking Poseidon to an unnamed buyer. <\/p>\n
Eidesvik says a deposit has already been paid and delivery is expected to take place mid-March. <\/p>\n
The sale will have a positive effect of around NOK180m ($21.5) according to Eidesvik, after it recorded a NOK130m ($15.5m) impairment charge on the vessel in the fourth quarter of 2016. <\/p>\n
Viking Poseidonrecently came off a contract with Siemens Wind Power supporting operations in the German sector. <\/p>\n
The vessel was previously on charter to Harkand, who cancelled the contractin May 2016 after into went into administration. <\/p>\n
Grant Rowles <\/p>\n
Grant spent nine years at Informa Group based in London, Sydney, Hong Kong and Singapore. He gained strong management experience in publishing, conferences and awards schemes in the shipping and legal areas, working on a number of titles including Lloyd's List. In 2009 Grant joined Seatrade responsible for the commercial development of Seatrades Asia products. In 2012, with Sam Chambers, he co-founded Asia Shipping Media. <\/p>\n
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