Herbjorn Hansson today added his voice to the chorus of shipowners dismissing any impact of a Brexit vote on the mainstream markets.

Last week’s vote sent global stock markets into freefall, with New York-listed NAT among the myriad companies seeing its shares slide.

In a statement today, Hansson said: “Recently a lot has been discussed about the effect of Brexit. We shall comment more extensively later, but would like to note at this time that we do not believe the effect of Brexit will impact NAT to any significant extent."

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