{"id":6405,"date":"2015-02-27T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2015\/02\/27\/hb-grandi-upgrades-fleet\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T23:59:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:59:36","slug":"hb-grandi-upgrades-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/industry-news\/hb-grandi-upgrades-fleet\/","title":{"rendered":"HB Grandi upgrades fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new vessels, <i>Venus NS 150 and V\u00edkingur AK,<\/i> will replace two 55-year-old pelagic vessels: <i>V\u00edkingur AK 100<\/i>, which has already been sold, and <i>Lundey NS 14<\/i>. Once this transaction is completed, the company says the average age of its fleet will decrease from 33 to 23 years.<\/p>\n<p>The company has recently completed debt financing for the vessels, as well as the refinancing of older long-term loans, with Arion banki and DNB Bank ASA. The total amount is \u20ac77m, to be drawn down in three tranches, with the term of each drawdown being 5 years. <\/p>\n<p> Part of the loan will be used to refinance current liabilities due to accrued payments in connection with the shipbuilding.<\/p>\n<p>The loan agreement carries variable interest, with the current average interest being 2.8%.<\/p>\n<p>Delivery is expected this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HB Grandi is upgrading its fleet this year with two new pelagic vessels to be built by Turkish shipyard, Celiktrans Deniz Insaat Ltd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-6405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6407,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6405\/revisions\/6407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6405"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=6405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}