NS United's 184,800-dwt, Mitsui-built NSS Endeavor (built 2002) is said to have been inspected by at least 12 buyers in China last week and Singapore's Winning Shipping tells TradeWinds it was in the crowd, but it says the price was too high.

Winning has built up its fleet of capesizes to 28 units, most of them significantly younger than NSS Endeavor.