The Baltic-based shipowner is offloading the 7,365-dwt Alka(built 1994), it revealed today without naming the buyer or the price.

Last week LSC said it planned to exclusively operatehandysizes by 2016 with a view to branching out into the transatlantic trade.

It hopes to add one or two vessels to its ranks over thenext two years.

The Alka is the third multipurpose vessel that LSC has shed recentlyfollowing the sale of the 9,500-dwt Skalva (built 1985) and the 5,800-dwt Asta