Smooth Shipping, a subsidiary of China’s Sainty Shipyard, has hived off a pair of handysize boxships to a domestic leasing company.

The 1,072-teu geared vessels Sainty Vigour (built 2014) and Sainty Vogue (built 2013) have been sold to Avic Leasing for an undisclosed price.

The two units were delivered in October and March amid speculation that they were originally destined for a European shipowner that dropped the order when financing dried up.

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