UK-based Navig8 Group has continued to build up its pools business in deals with two new shipowners.

The company said it has added the 75,000-dwt LR1 tanker Red Eagle (built 2011) to the LR8 pool.

The owner is Adhart Shipping of Singapore, a new partner for Navig8.

Adhart has three other LR1s, but these are older, built in 1999, 2003 and 2004.