Oslo-listed MPC Container Ships (MPCC) has achieved a huge price for two veteran vessels bought in a bank sale six years ago.

The 2,824-teu sub-panamaxes Cimbria (built 2002) and Cardonia (built 2003) are being sold for $42.5m in total.

They are the last ships in the MPCC fleet to be owned with an unnamed joint venture partner.