Late last week, several sale-and-purchase brokers in Athens and New York told clients that Pioneer Maritime paid between $13 and $13.3m to acquire the 28,678-dwt Fraga (built 2003).
Today, Pankaj Khanna, who founded the Singapore-based company earlier this year after forging an alliance with Garrison Investment Group of the US, says these reports are false.
“These days my name is associated with every handysize that is sold or for sale,” he joked in a brief email exchange with TradeWinds Tuesday.
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