Report: Seven Xihe Holdings Tankers Up for Sale

Thursday, September 17, 2020

The supervisor of Singaporean shipping group Xihe Holdings Pte Ltd has put seven oil tankers controlled by the company up for sale as part of efforts to recoup funds owed to creditors, three sources said on Wednesday.   

Xihe Holdings is part of the Lim family business empire, which also includes oil trader Hin Leong Trading and fleet manager Ocean Tankers (Pte) Ltd, both of which were placed under court-appointed supervisors earlier this year.

The sale includes three crude oil supertankers and is expected to get fully underway in the coming days, the sources said.

The ships were valued at a total of just over $196 million, according to vessel valuer TonnEdge on Eikon.

Clarksons Platou and Arrow Shipbroking Group have been appointed by the supervisor to act as the joint brokers for the marketing and sales of the vessels, they said.    

Grant Thornton, interim judicial managers of Xihe Holdings, did not immediately respond to calls and an email requesting comment. Clarksons declined to comment, while Arrow did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 


Related: Singapore Court Appoints Supervisor for Xihe Holdings


The Lim family and their lawyers did not immediately respond to an email requesting comment.    

AlixPartners, which is acting as adviser to Grant Thornton, declined to comment.    

The seven tankers are part of 136 ships that Xihe Group owns, which range from coastal barges to very large crude carriers (VLCCs).

Lim Oon Kuin, also known as O.K. Lim, with his son Evan Lim Chee Meng and daughter Lim Huey Ching, own 77 companies under the Xihe Group, which consists mainly of Xihe Holdings and Xihe Capital.

The bulk of Lim's fleet is idled in the South China Sea, off the east of peninsular Malaysia. At least six of the tankers have cargoes that are the subject of competing legal claims from multiple parties.

Hin Leong is seeking to restructure billions of dollars of debt after the oil price crash revealed a massive, years-long fraud at the once-fabled trading house.

A preliminary report prepared by PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory Services Pte, a separate court-appointed supervisor, said Hin Leong had no future as an independent company after it "grossly overstated" the value of its assets by at least $3 billion.


Vessels for sale


CompanyVessel Name Vessel Type Year Built
NAN YA MARITIME (PTE) LTD
PU TUO SAN
VLCC
2011
HUA KANG SHIPPING PTE LTD
TAI SANVLCC
2009
HUA XIN SHIPPING PTE LTD
TAI HUNG SANVLCC2010
DONG FANG SHIPPING & TRADING OCEAN PEGASUS
LR2
2009
XIN YA SHIPPING & TRADING  OCEAN TRADER LR2
2008
XIN SHENG SHIPPING (PTE) LTD
OCEAN VICTORY MR1

2002
NAN HAI MARITIME (PTE) LTD
BEI JIANG MR2
2009



  (Reporting by Jonathan Saul in London, Roslan Khasawneh, Florence Tan and Aizhu Chen in Singapore; Editing by Louise Heavens, David Evans and Mark Potter)

Categories: Legal Oil Tankers

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