Yang Ming has sold two of its largest containerships for around $116m, according to broking sources.

The 8,209-teu post-panamax YM Utmost and YM Unison (both built 2006) are said to have gone to an unidentified buyer for around $58m each, with a time charter back to the Taiwanese operator for 45 months at $33,000 per day.

The pair belong to a series of eight ships that Yang Ming ordered in 2003 at Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) and China Shipbuilding Corp (CSBC).

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