ESL Shipping sells bulker to Norwegian firm to support fleet renewal

Aspo Plc subsidiary ESL Shipping sells an ice-classed bulk carrier to The Qrill Company AS. The sales price of the 21,353-dwt self-discharging Kallio, 2006-built, is about 18m euros. The sales gain for Aspo is expected to be around 10m euros. 

The company stated that divesting the vessel, taken into use in 2006, would help to speed up the green transition of ESL Shipping and strengthen the financing of the new vessels currently under construction.

Kallio has sailed under the Finnish flag. After the divestment of the vessel, the aim is to assign the vessel crew to