Winning Shipping of Singapore is being linked to Carval Investors’ NKK-built 176,000-dwt capesize Portage (built 2002) which TradeWinds reported last week had been sold to an undisclosed buyer for between $8.6m and $9.2m.

TradeWinds sources now say the price is $8.5m.

In January, Winning bought the Imabari-built, 181,000-dwt Pleiades Dream (built 2009) and the 203,000-dwt Shin Kenryu (built 2003).

Pleiades Dream was reported sold for $18.5m