The owner said the contract consists of two firm 84,000-dwt vessels of the Green Dolphin 84S design at Sainty Marine in China, with two options attached.

Deliveries start from the second half of 2016.

But W Marine managing director Nikolaos Triantafyllakis said: “The aim of the company, in line with the wishes of its founder, Yiannis Sarantitis, is to build up a homogeneous fleet of vessels ranging in size between panamax to post-panamax.”

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