Easterly Asset Management’s Maritime Logistics Equity Partners (MLEP) has emerged as the buyer of four IMO-II chemical tankers from South Korean shipowner Cido Shipping.

The Boston-based company said in a statement that it had acquired and renamed four ships — the 26,667-dwt Easterly Canyon (ex-Atlantic Canyon, built 2009), and 36,667-dwt Easterly Sirius (ex-Atlantic Sirius, built 2010), Easterly Symphony (ex-Atlantic Symphony) and Easterly Jupiter (ex-Atlantic Jupiter, both built 2009).