Zhejiang Yangfan willdeliver the eco-design 64,000-dwt bulkers in 2015, the New York-listed shipowner confirmed in a statement.

Peter Giorgiopoulos-led Baltic will pay the same $28m eachit paid for the first vessels announced in November.

Those two are expected to hit the water as soon as the endof this year.

The latest purchases are in addition to a pair of capesize vesselssnapped up from SK Group of South Korea in November for a combined $103m.

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