John Fredriksen-controlled Golden Ocean has delayed a pair of capesize newbuildings by several months.

The New York-listed bulker owner said it struck a deal to push back two newbuildings until the end of October.

They had been originally been scheduled for delivery in February and March of 2016.

Golden Ocean chose a low-profile disclosure for the development, tucking it into a single sentence of a 137-page annual report to the US Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC).

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