Brokers report the Danish owner has bought four 50,000-dwt vessels being built for Horizon Tankers at Sungdong Shipbuilding.

Sources are placing a $34.75m per vessel value on the deal, which would mean a $139m outlay for Maersk Tankers.

A spokesperson for Maersk Tankers declined to comment, stressing a policy of not discussing market rumours.

Horizon, Greek owner Anthony Comninos’s tanker division, had been set to take delivery of the ships in 2015 and 2016.

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