Navios Maritime Acquisition has agreed to purchase two new-building chemical tankers, as well as exercising an option to buy a pair of MR2 product tankers for a total of $130.2m.
Each of the 45,000dwt new-building chemical/product tankers will cost about $33.6m and are expected to be delivered in the third quarter of 2013.
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Following delivery, the two vessels will be named the Nave Universe and the Nave Constellation.
According to the company, each of the two 51,200dwt new-building MR2 Eco Type product tankers will cost $31.5m and are scheduled to be delivered in the first quarter of 2015.
Funding for the new vessels will come from the company’s balance sheet and 60% bank debt on terms consistent with its existing credit facilities.
The two new-build chemical/product tankers have been chartered out to a counterparty for two years at a rate of $14,869 net per day, plus 50% profit sharing, while the charterer has been granted an option for an additional year at a rate of $16,088 net per day, plus 50% profit sharing.
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By GlobalDataEarlier this week, Navios Acquisition took delivery of a 49,995dwt new-building MR2 product tanker, Nave Capella, from a South Korean shipyard.
The company has also added the 50,922dwt second-hand MR2 Ice Class 1A product tanker called Nave Pulsar to its fleet.
Navios Acquisition operates a fleet of 40 vessels including 29 product tankers, four chemical tankers and seven crude tankers to transport petroleum products and bulk liquid chemicals.
