HELSINKI Shipyard has started a tender to free another Swan Hellenic (SH) ship from her limbo. The incomplete expedition vessel is being built for the cruise line, which is working with Russian leasing company GTLK, which is currently under sanction and therefore will be forced to default on the ship....
HELSINKI Shipyard has started a tender to free another Swan Hellenic (SH) ship from her limbo.
The incomplete expedition vessel is being built for the cruise line, which is working with Russian leasing company GTLK, which is currently under sanction and therefore will be forced to default on the ship.
SH in Jun bought its second ship Vega (pictured) outright, after encountering the same situation with Helsinki and GTLK (CW 28 Jun).
The contracts initially called for the vessels to operate under long-term charters to SH, after being delivered to GTLK.
“Helsinki Shipyard Oy seeks to obtain the best fair market value for the vessel and reserves the right to reject any and all bids,” the company said.
Bids are due on 09 Dec, with the winner to be announced three days later.
SH ordered Diana in Oct 2020 as a larger version of the first two vessels, also built by the Helsinki Shipyard.
Diana is scheduled for delivery early next year, with her first voyage intended to cruise at the end of Mar from Piraeus.
She is scheduled to operate in the Mediterranean, before repositioning to Northern Europe and the Arctic later in the year.
SH recently appointed former Dream Cruises local head Brigita Devries as its local General Manager (CW 26 Oct).
