A top European sale-and-purchase brokersays the Connecticut-based tanker owner paid $55.5m to pick up the 158,000-dwtFour Tide (ex Hull 1977).
The vessel, which is due for delivery thismonth, was one of two suezmax newbuildings inked at Samsung by a joint venturebetween Italian compatriots Premuda and Ignazio Messina.
The orders were placed two years ago by Four Jolly Spa, a partnershipformed in 2009 that