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Harkand dive support vessels receive bareboat charter terminations

Oslo-listed Harkand Finance and its bond trustee Nordic Trustee have agreed to terminate the bareboat charters of two of Harkand’s dive support vessels after the shipping company’s bonds were found to be in default.

In 2014, Harkand completed a $230m issue of senior secured bonds due in March 2019, through which it raised proceeds to refinance existing debt on the vessels Harkand Atlantis (pictured) and Harkand Da Vinci and fund the pre-delivery installments on a DSV newbuilding.

Nordic Trustee today said it has “for now not declared the bonds to be due for immediate payment” but has agreed with Harkand to cancel the two DSVs’ bareboat charters. The trustee notified Harkand in March that the bonds were in default.

In MarchHarkand Atlantis and Harkand Da Vinci won “multi-million-pound” contract to provide subsea support services to Maersk Oil North Sea UK. Latest AIS data shows the two vessels are currently berthed at the port of Leith in Scotland.

The DSV newbuilding, Harkand Haldane, is due to be delivered this month.

Holly Birkett

Holly is Splash's Online Editor and correspondent for the UK and Mediterranean. She has been a maritime journalist since 2010, and has written for and edited several trade publications. She is currently studying for membership of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers. In 2013, Holly won the Seahorse Club's Social Media Journalist of the Year award. She is currently based in London.
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