Scorpio Group continues pools build-up with Premuda additions

A second shoe has dropped in the private Scorpio Group’s efforts to promote consolidation in the product tanker sector by expanding its pools membership.

Italy’s Premuda is the latest owner to join, contributing three MR tankers and one handysize vessel to Scorpio, according to Dubai-based pool director Ugo Romano.

Premuda’s MRs — the 46,500-dwt PS Tokyo (built 2009), 50,300-dwt Grazia (built 2010), 51,000-dwt Silver Point (built 2011) and 40,400-dwt Nina (built 2010) — have joined up with Scorpio, Romano said.