Connecticut-based Penfield Marine is opening a new front in the Hong Kong market with the addition of two new pool members.

Valles Steamship and Wah Kwong Maritime Transport have agreed to enter one tanker each into Penfield’s growing aframax pool, Penfield founders Tim Brennan and Eric Haughn told TradeWinds in an interview near the company’s offices in Fairfield.

They were joined by Glenn Gronseth, who has been hired as Penfield’s business development director after 28 years at Connecticut pool operator Heidmar, where he most recently was managing director for projects.