PetroVietnam Transportation (PV Trans) continues to expand, buying two small chemical tankers that have been trading in the fleet of MISC Berhad’s AET Tankers.

Vietnam’s largest tanker opera­tor has acquired the 19,900-dwt Bunga Lotus and Bunga Lucerne (both built 2012), brokers reported this week.

The Fukuoka Shipbuilding-constructed pair are said to have been sold in an enbloc deal worth $32m.