Taiwanese bulker owner Eddie Steamship has started buying ships again after a two-year wait with the opportunistic purchase of a modern handysize.

TradeWinds understands the company has picked up the 32,900-dwt New Sailing Star (built 2010) for a low $6.5m.

The vessel was built at China’s Zhejiang Zhenxing Shipbuilding and is due for survey. Published sources list it in the fleet of various owners, including Cos­co Hunan, but TradeWinds understands this is incorrect.