Hong Kong’s Jinhui Shipping and Transportation is positioning its veteran bulkers for potential sales to domestic owners as the Chinese flag prepares to close a window on imports of such tonnage.

The Oslo-listed shipowner has already offloaded one such vessel, as TradeWinds reported earlier this week.

The sale of the 50,800-dwt Jin Fu (built 2001) to a Chinese owner identified as Xiangshan Xingning Shipping Co for domestic trading fetched a reported $8.35m,