Chinese shipowner Maple Leaf Shipping is set to trim its fleet again, putting a modern handysize bulker up for sale after an unreported deal to offload a supramax earlier this year.
Company officials confirm that the 35,000-dwt Maple Star (built 2012) became a "potential sale candidate" as of the end of last week. The ship, which was built at Taizhou Maple Leaf Shipbuilding, is waiting to load at Portland, Oregon, for discharge in China.
