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SERVICE AGREEMENT MacGregor, part of Cargotech, has signed a five-year contract running to 2027 covering all vessels in the fleet of Color Line, as well as their terminals in Denmark and Norway. RP

TANKERS CHANGE HANDS Greece’s Angelicoussis Group has acquired eight BP-controlled product tankers for its Pantheon Tankers fleet for an en bloc price of $230 million. The ships, five 39,999dwt handysizes and three 45,500dwt medium range (MR) vessels, all owned by China’s ICBC Financial Leasing, were leased to BP but have recently been on bareboat charter to Denmark’s Maersk Tankers. JS

LNG carriers Alpha Gas of Greece has acquired three LNG tankers still under construction by Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering, formerly known as Hyundai Heavy Industries, at a price of $242 million each. The 174,000m capacity vessels

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