In pre-pandemic times, shipping and yard executives would toast to each other and smash a bottle of champagne during a naming ceremony.
This did not happen when Thun Tankers launched the 7,999-dwt Thun Equality (built 2021) virtually via YouTube on Monday. And chief commercial officer Joakim Lund believed it was all the better.
“We have adjusted to the new reality with a safe way of doing it,” Lund told TradeWinds.
