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Oman Shipping Co looking to buy two containerships

Oman Shipping Co looking to buy two containerships
Oman Shipping Co (OSC) is looking to buy two secondhand containerships to replace chartered in tonnage local press reported.

The shipowner is looking to acquire two 3,000 teu vessels. “Each vessel is expected to cost around $10m (in the secondhand market). We are looking for secondhand vessels,” Tarik Mohammed Al Junaidi, ceo of OSC told the Times of Oman.

He added this is a good time to acquire vessels from the secondhand market since it would be really cheap.

The company is seeing an almost 100% utilisation on a 2,500 teu container vessels operated on the Sohar to Jebel Ali route.