Executive vice-president Peter Keller also confirms that the US shipowner is planning to retire its oldest two ships, which will be replaced in the company’s Sea Star Line fleet by two containership newbuildings on order at General Dynamics Nassco in San Diego.

As TradeWinds reported online last week, New Jersey-based Tote recently signed an agreement with WesPac Mids­tream and AGL Resources to receive LNG bunkers from a liquefaction facility to be constructed in Jacksonville, Florida.