Nasdaq-listed Navios Maritime Containers has exercised an option to buy a 2011-built boxship for $52.5m.

The company said the unnamed 10,000-teu vessel will join the fleet in the first quarter.

It has a charter attached stretching to November 2020 at $26,325 per day, and then at $27,300 per day until October 2021.

The vessel will generate $9.5m