Germany's Salamon is the latest company to place ships into Navig8 Group's growing suezmax pool.

The UK operator said the company first joined the Suez8 pool in March, with its 150,000-dwt Voyager (built 2002).

It followed this up this month with the 150,000-dwt Astra (built 2002).

This brings the pool to 15 delivered vessels.

Salamon also has an aframax, product tankers and two bulkers.

Navig8 has been building up the pool quickly in recent months.

In January, it added one more vessel to its managed fleet following the capture of eight Ridgebury suezmaxes last year.

The London-based tanker pools operator said Libyan shipowner General National Maritime Transport Co (GNMTC) contributed its 159,000-dwt suezmax Libya (built 2007).

Heidmar capture

The Ridgebury octet was brought in from US pools operator Heidmar. The deal was announced in October.

The ships left Heidmar’s Bluefin pool, cutting its numbers to 13 from 21 vessels.

Heidmar has since brought in Ioannis Martinos's artificial intelligence company Signal Maritime Services to run its vessels.

And TradeWinds has reported George Economou-backed Heidmar has told staffers it is winding up its operations by June.

Navig8 describes itself as the world’s largest independent pool and commercial management company.

GNMTC has three other suezmaxes built in 2008 and 2009 plus other tankers, a bulker and two LPG carriers.