Chilean bunker group Copec is adding two tankers to its southern services.

It is deploying domestic owner Transportes Petromar's 1,500-dwt Tamina (built 1979) from 1 November, it said.

The second vessel is a newbuilding due from China in December, a Copec spokeswoman told the Platts news agency. It will have about half the capacity of Tamina.

The ships will boost Copec's fleet to five vessels in a bid to serve the cruise, fishing and research market in the deep south.

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