A charter agreement between Geden Lines and Trafigura has apparently hit a shoal due to a previous deal between the two companies.
As TradeWinds reported in April, the commodity trader fixed four handysize chemical tankers from the Turkish company at $10,250 per day.
But brokers suggest that Trafigura could stop paying for these ships because of an earlier dispute.
In the summer of 2015, Trafigura hired the 104,583-dwt C.S.