Safe Bulkers dismisses purchase talk

Polys Hajioannou companies Safe Bulkers and Safety Management Overseas are denying broker reports that they have purchased two modern dry bulkers.

Sources identified Safety Management as the new owner of the Sasebo-built 78,000-dwt Yarra (built 2015), which was reportedly sold by Santoku Senpaku for $21.5m.

Contacted by TradeWinds, however, senior company officials and Safe Bulkers president Loukas Barmparis said these reports are not true. Other brokers suggest the Yarra may not have been sold yet at all.  

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