The project cargo specialist has picked up the 19,500-dwt Maersk Illinois and the Maersk Texas (both built 2011).
The duo were deemed surplus to requirements after MLL and Rickmers-Linie (Americas) ended their joint venture in the US-flag heavylift market.
The Danish and German shipowners said they had “mutually agreed to discontinue their joint venture, Maersk-Rickmers US Flag Project Carrier”
The two ships, each of which has a combined maximum lift of 480t, have been renamed the Thorco Isabella and Thorco Isadora.
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