Norway's Wilson has signed agreements to buy two small bulkers from Ireland's Arklow Shipping, which rose to fame this year for very different reasons.

Wilson has agreed to buy the 5,000-dwt, open-hatch vessels Arklow Rover and Arklow Resolve (both built 2004).

"The purchase is financed through equity and draw on the company's bank loan facility," Wilson said in a filing to the Oslo Stock Exchange on Monday.