News / MPC picks up three more discounted boxships as the charter market heats up

Oslo-based containership owner MPC Container Ships has launched another raid on the former assets of German KG companies for three discounted 2,500 teu feeder vessels to boost its fleet to 68 ships.

In a combined cash and shares deal, it has an agreement with Triton Debt Opportunities to purchase the geared 2,500 teu 2005-built Victoria Schulte for a total consideration of $11.8m. And it is to purchase two 2,500 teu vessels, the Welle and the Woge, built in 2005 and 2006, for ...