Idan Ofer’s Japanese Pacific Transport (EPS) has added to its huge orderbook with a recent deal for MR product tanker newbuilds in China.
The Singapore-based diversified shipowner, with greater than 70 newbuilding initiatives, has contracted for as much as eight 50,000 dwt product carriers at Fujian Mawei Shipbuilding.
The order covers 4 agency conventionally fueled items delivering in 2026 and 2027 at $46.5m every and 4 non-compulsory newbuilds break up into two every, based on shipbuilding sources.
If all choices are referred to as, taking the deal to about $372m, EPS may have doubled its MR orderbook, which, along with Mawei items, contains six ships at New Occasions Shipbuilding and two at Hyundai Vietnam.