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.
