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Bruton Orders Four Scrubber-Fitted VLCCs from China
Tuesday March 24, 2026
Norway’s Bruton has ordered four 319,000 dwt very large crude carriers (VLCCs) fitted with scrubber systems from China.
The company has entered into a shipbuilding contract with Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore Ltd, it said in a regulatory press release on Friday.
The purchase price of each vessel is $124.75 million.
Each vessel will be fitted with open-loop scrubbers, with deliveries scheduled from January to July of 2028.
Scrubber systems or exhaust gas cleaning systems, enabling them to run on HSFO while meeting the IMO's global 0.5% sulfur cap.
Several countries, such as Denmark, Sweden and Finland, imposed a ban on discharges from open-loop scrubbers in their territorial waters last year.
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