South Korean shipbuilder STX has boosted its orderbook by $46m as a result of a customer changing an order for two tankers into bulk carriers.

Dimitris Papadimitriou
STX does not identify the shipowner revising his ordering plans but says the original deal was done in May 2008 and the two tankers had a contract value of KRW 258.6bn ($239m) at current exchange rates.

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