A posse of keen buyers has been whittled down to three in the race to acquire two subsea newbuildings being sold by a Chinese yard as a result of the bankruptcy of Greece's Toisa.

TradeWinds is told up to 15 potential bidders had been circulating around the 97-metre inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) units Toisa Resolute and Toisa Reveille, which are now nearly complete at Qingdao Wuchuan Heavy Industry Co.