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The number went round the market in a day. Two hundred million dollars for a very large crude carrier, which on Clarkson Research Services data would make it the most expensive tanker of its type ever sold, and the wires carried it with the confidence such a figure deserves. Then you go looking for the buyer and the ground gives way. VesselsValue has the transaction, the vessel and the price, and leaves the buyer field empty. Xclusiv Shipbrokers published its weekly sale and purchase table on September 7 and what would be the most expensive single tanker ever sold does not appear in it at all. The seven tanker sales Xclusiv did record that week run from a 158,280 tonne vessel at $47.4 million down to an 11,288 tonne vessel at $7.5 million. No registry consulted for this brief shows a change of registered owner, of flag or of manager, and the registered owner, manager and safety management fields on VesselFinder’s record for the hull are all blank. Splash247 names a Dubai trading house and does not say how it knows. Bloomberg rests this sale on one person who asked not to be identified. TradeWinds puts the same claim behind a paywall. Dynacom, the seller, declined to comment. The named buyer has stayed silent throughout and the Iraqi oil ministry made no comment either. What is genuinely established is narrower and stranger than the headline figure. One vessel exists. It is seven months old rather than a secondhand bargain, it carries two names in the databases because it has already been renamed once and the price attached to it sits about eleven percent above what the same valuer says the hull is worth and roughly $85 million above what a broker says Dynacom paid to order it from the yard. The hull itself left Al Fujairah in ballast on September 5 with a Brazilian terminal entered as its destination, and one tracker still had it at anchor in the Gulf of Oman five days later. Everything else about this trade is somebody telling a reporter something on the condition that nobody find out it was them.
📋 In This Issue:
⚖️ The Story:
What the databases actually record and what they leave blank, why two vessel names describe one hull, the eleven percent gap between the price and the valuation and the far larger gap between the price and what Dynacom paid the yard, why the Dubai and the Iraqi accounts are not the contradiction they look like, the fleet records that point the other way and the charter tender that has been wrongly tied to this sale
📊 By The Numbers:
The $200 million, the $179.4 million valuation, the $115 million the seller is said to have paid, the Las Palmas comparable, the 83 transactions and the one empty field
🌍 Why It Matters:
What it changes for the sale and purchase desk, the owner marking a fleet, the marine underwriter and anyone quoting a market record
👀 What To Watch:
The registry, the next broker table, the tender award and the falsifier that would break this brief
🚨 Gosships Signal:
A record needs a buyer. This one has three descriptions and no name
