Oslo-based Torvald Klaveness is seeing increased interest from bulker players joining the company’s two pools, with another five ships added last week.

Klaveness runs two spot-market pools, Baumarine in the panamax segment and Bulkhandling in the handymax and supramax sectors.

“We offer an attractive alternative to time-charter deals,” said Klaveness pools chief Hans-Petter Olsen. “We see clearly increasing interest to join our two pools.