Evalend Shipping of Greece has increased its huge orderbook with LR1 tanker newbuildings.

Shipbuilding sources said the Kriton Lendoudis-led company has returned to China’s Yangzijiang Shipbuilding and ordered two conventionally fuelled, 75,000-dwt product carriers.

The latest newbuildings lift the total number of LR1 tankers that the Greek owner has on order at the Chinese shipyard to six.