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BASIS OF PREPARATION AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES - Narrative (Details)	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2023 segment service ship_broker
Trading Activity, Gains and Losses, Net [Line Items]
Number of third-party ship brokers in assessing indicators of impairment | ship_broker	2
Number of services | service	3
Number of reportable segments | segment	3
Deferred drydocking expenditure
Trading Activity, Gains and Losses, Net [Line Items]
Period until next anticipated drydocking	5 years

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Number of segments reported by the entity. A reportable segment is a component of an entity for which there is an accounting requirement to report separate financial information on that component in the entity's financial statements.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef
-Topic 280
-SubTopic 10
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Section 50
-Paragraph 18
-Publisher FASB
-URI https://asc.fasb.org//1943274/2147482810/280-10-50-18

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