New York-listed Scorpio has placed a series of up to eight medium range (MR) tankers at Hyundai Mipo Dockyard (HMD) alongside a potential handymax octet, its quarterly report said.

As TradeWinds was first to report in the past week, both series contain two firm vessels and options for up to six more.

Scorpio says it will pay $34.5m for the MRs and $32.5m