Ship Owners Placing More Tanker Orders in Hellenic Shipping News 11/03/2026 Ship owners have kept investing in the newbuilding market, with tankers at the forefront. In its latest weekly report, shipbroker Banchero Costa commented that “in the tanker sector, Netherlands’ Ferus Smit booked an order for 2 x 4,500 dwt product carriers for Swedish owner Erik Thun Group. Capacity is 5,000 cbm each and deliveries are set for 2028 and 2029, price was not disclosed. Greek owner Performance Shipping ordered 2 x suezmax tankers for $163 mln total. Deliveries are scheduled for 2028 and 2029. In the container sector, China’s Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipyard (SWS) and China Shipbuilding Trading Co. (CSTC) booked an order for 2 x 11,000 teu vessels from Chinese owner LC Logistics. The rumored price is $118 mln per vessel. In the gas carrier sector, South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries secured an order for 4 x 170,000 cu.m. LNG carriers from a US owner. Delivery starts March 2028, and the total price is $1.02 bln”, the shipbroker said. Source: Banchero Costa Meanwhile, in the S&P market this week, shipbroker Xclusiv said that “on the Capesize sector, the “CAPE SANDRA” – 176K/2011 HHIC was sold for USD 32 mills basis SS/DD due. Moving down to the Kamsarmax segment, the “NORD AURIGA”- 82K/2020 JNS was sold for USD 32 mills, while the “SPIRIT OF HO-PING” – 82K/2011 Tsuneishi changed hands for USD 19.35 mills. In the Supramax segment, the sister vessels “GENCO PREDATOR” – 55K/2005 NACKS and “GENCO PICARDY” – 55K/2005 NACKS were sold enbloc for USD 21 mills each. Activity was also noted in the Handysize sector. The “NORD SANTIAGO” – 39K/2018 JNS was sold for USD 22 mills, while the “ACTION TRADER” – 39K/2017 JNS was also sold for USD 20.5 mills. Furthermore, the “SIDER ATHENA” – 39K/2013 Chengxi changed hands for low/mid USD 17 mills. In the same size range, the “DL LAVENDER” – 35K/2014 SPP was acquired by Greek buyers for USD 15.8 mills. On the same sector, the Logger and Semi-boxed “MANGUSTA” – 33K/2015 Shin Kochi was sold for USD 16.7 mills. The “KEN GIANT” – 28K/2009 Imabari changed hands for USD 8.6 mills”. Source: Xclusiv “On the Aframax sector, the “GREEN ATTITUDE” – 113K/2018 Cosco found new owners for USD 71 mills. In the same size range, the “VOLTA RIVER” – 106K/2007 Tsuneishi was sold for USD 33 mills. On the MR2 sector, the sister vessels “STI OSCEOLA” – 50K/2015 HMD and “STI SENECA” – 50K/2015 HMD were sold for USD 35 mills each. Finally, on the small tanker segment, the “ASIA EVERGREEN” – 14K/2012 Fujian Shenglong was sold for excess USD 9 mills”, Xclusiv concluded. Nikos Roussanoglou, Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide Tops 2026-03-11 hellenicshippingnews... window.___gcfg = {lang: 'en-US'}; (function(w, d, s) { function go(){ var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0], load = function(url, id) { if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;} js = d.createElement(s); js.src = url; js.id = id; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }; load('//connect.facebook.net/en/all.js#xfbml=1', 'fbjssdk'); load('https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js', 'gplus1js'); load('//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js', 'tweetjs'); } if (w.addEventListener) { w.addEventListener("load", go, false); } else if (w.attachEvent) { w.attachEvent("onload",go); } }(window, document, 'script')); tweet Share