Maersk Tankers is said to have extended a busy week with the sale of its final two crude tankers.
The Danish owner booked four extra LR2s in China on Tuesday and was being linked with a second-hand MR purchase.
Now, brokers believe the privately-owned company has offloaded a pair aframaxes in a deal worth $60.6m.
The ships in the frame are the 105,000-dwt Maersk Jamnagar and Maersk Jeddah (both built 2011).
Maersk Tankers declined to comment on the reports when contacted by TradeWinds, citing a policy of not commenting on rumours and speculation.
Maersk Tankers has refocused as a product specialist since selling its VLCCs to Euronav in 2014 and the aframaxes were its last two crude ships.
As TradeWinds was first to reveal in April, Maersk Tankers has launched a new strategy that is targeting a sharp reduction in CO 2 emissions well ahead of ambitious IMO deadlines.
Chief executive Christian M Ingerslev explained further investments in steel would come under what the company is calling “dynamic fleet”.
“It’s a realisation that I can tell you something today and in six months I can tell you something different. Because the answer is: it depends. We need to develop our fleet depending on the market environment,” he said in April.
