Market sources say Vernicos Argonaftis has its sights set on a pair of ten-year-old units controlled by a top European operator but wouldn’t identify the candidates by name.
Observers believe this means prior plans to purchase a pair of newbuildings from a Chinese yard may have been thrown on the backburner, at least for now.
Contacts with close ties to the Vernicos clan claim the company had been in talks with Chinese lenders but note the process of securing financing from institutions like the Export-Import bank of China can be time consuming.
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