Costamare, a US-listed owner-operator of about 160 bulkers and boxships, revealed on Friday that yet another batch of secondhand deals as part of a long-standing policy to renew its fleet with larger and younger bulkers.

It confirmed a TradeWinds report last week linking it to the purchase of two Oldendorff sister ships: the 61,100-dwt August Oldendorff (built 2015) and the one-year younger Alwine Oldendorff.