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GRAFTON (1996)
Service dates: 1996-2003
Shipping lines: P&O BULK CARRIERS; ASSOCIATED BULK CARRIERS
Ship type:
Bulk Carrier.
Career
- 21.03.1996
- Delivered as Grafton for Promaster Shipping Corporation SA (Unique Shipping Agencies, Hong Kong, managers) both non-Group Companies. Time charter to P&O Bulk Carriers Ltd.
- 18.11.1997
- Now bareboat chartered (instead of time chartered) by Andalusia Shipholding Ltd (a P&O Group company). Management transferred to P&O Ship Management (Hong Kong) Ltd.
- 10.02.1998
- Transferred from Panama to Bermuda flag; now registered at Hamilton, Bermuda. Official number 703BDA, call sign ZCBO5.
- 07.07.1998
- Charter transferred to Associated Bulk Carriers (P&O interest 50%). Managers now Associated Bulk Carriers (London) Ltd (P&O interest 50%). Operating company now Associated Bulk Carriers.
- 03.04.2000
- Associated Bulk Carriers and Andalucia Shipholding now P&O subsidiaries.
- 04.01.2001
- Associated Bulk Carriers now 50% owned by P&O. Managers now Zodiac Maritime Agencies Ltd (non-Group company).
- 02.12.2003
- P&O sold their 50% interest in Associated Bulk Carriers to its partner Eurotower Holdings SA therefore the vessel was no longer in Group service. Still reported in service.