Pacific Basin keeps shrinking its towage business as it has sold two units to Greece’s Vernicos Tugs & Salvage.

Vernicos has added the 5,000-bhp PB Kaituna (built 2008) and PB Komata (built 2009) for an undisclosed price.

With the latest addition of the two sisterships, the Greek owner now controls a fleet of 18 tugs.

It is believed that these were the last two tugs to be owned by Pacific Basin.