Russian shipping major Sovcomflot (SCF) has acquired nine arctic-going oil tankers from shipowner Primorsk International Shipping Ltd. (Prisco) through an auction procedure. The transaction price came in at approximately US$215m.

The 9 ships are LR2 tankers Zaliv Vostok, Zaliv Baikal, Zaliv Amurskiy, MR2 tankers Prisco Ekaterina, Prisco Alexandra, Prisco Elena, Prisco Elizaveta and Prisco Irina, and Aframax tanker Zaliv Amerika, respectively, showed data from VesselsValue. These ships were built in 2008 and 2009.

The vessels were built at South Korea's yard STX Offshore & Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. and Hyundai Heavy Industries.