The Danish owner booked its first newbuilding order in four years in January with a quartet of supramaxes split between Dalian COSCO KHI Ship Engineering (DACKS) and Imabari Shipbuilding.

Chief executive Jan Kastrup-Nielsen tells TradeWinds that total has since been expanded with the addition of four handysize newbuildings to the owner’s own account and two more via a joint venture with Sincere Industrial Corporation.

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