Sources say an undisclosed buyer has acquired the 63,000-dwt JS Loire and JS Rhin (both built 2012) for $12.75m each, in line with expectations. Greenship could not be reached for comment.

In August, the sistership JS Meuse (built 2012) was sold, also to an undisclosed buyer, for the same price.

A month before that, Greenship sold a fourth sistership, the JS Rhone (built 2012), for between $12.5m