New Uni-Tankers CEO Per Ekmann has revealed the company's blueprint for the future as it tightens up its fleet acquisition process.

The Danish product tanker company has been refinanced and is now back under the 100% control of tycoon Torben Ostergaard-Nielsen’ USTC group, after Danske Bank exited as co-owner.

Ekmann told TradeWinds: "We want to move from say a rather opportunistic fleet development to a high focus on fleet acquisition processes enabling us to explore the various fleet developments in a structured ongoing way for newbuildings, second-hand tonnage and time-charter ship arrangement with purchase option.