Herbjorn Hansson's Nordic American Tankers has made perhaps its most aggressive expansion move with the addition of four suezmaxes.

New York-listed NAT will splash out $106m to buy the quartet in a swoop that will take its fleet to 30 ships.

While NAT has not named the ships individually, it does say they are four sisters from a world class shipyard and will enter the fleet this summer.

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