The Singapore-listed owner now has 14 vessels underconstruction after ordering two 80-tbp anchor handling tug supply vessels (AHTS) and afast utility/crew boat.

Swissco says the swoop is worth a total of SGD 42m ($33.5m) withChinese shipyards set to deliver the ships in 2015.

The move comes only two weeks after the company placed a near identical order worth SGD 35m.

Half of Swissco’s 14 newbuildings on order are AHTS.