The company has two 174,000-cbm vessels due from Samsung in 2017.

It said: “The company believes that the interest in the assets will increase as the timeline for projects becomes clearer and the supply and demand balance is improved.”

Flex reported a loss of $1.26m for the first half, down from a deficit of $2.71m in the same period of 2013.

The company said it had been working this year on potential design changes to the vessels.

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