Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC) is busy scouring the market for secondhand tonnage.
Brokers Braemar ACM link the Aponte family controlled liner with the acquisition for $10.5m of the 20-year-old, 5,456 teu, German-built SM Tacoma.
The marks the third change of hands for the vessel this year. SM Lines of South Korea sold the ship, previously part of the defunct Hanjin empire, to demo specialists GMS. GMS, however, decided the ship was still tradeable and in MSC have found willing buyers.