Navig8, a major pool operator that also owns tankers in its own right, has agreed to acquire four vessels already under its management.
According to ship management sources and brokers, the deal concerns all four LR1s currently owned by Jacob Shipping, a third-generation group from Germany.
The quartet was built at China’s Dalian Shipbuilding and is made up of the the 76,500-dwt Konstantin Jacob (built 2011), the 75,600-dwt Georg Jacob (built 2011), the 75,600-dwt Cordula Jacob (built 2012) and the 70,000-dwt Till Jacob (built 2012).
