Greenship Gas, owner of a fleet of ethane, ethylene and LNG carriers, management company Evergas and an 80% interest in design outfit JHW are being bought by Bourbon in a $320m deal that takes the French company back into merchant shipowning after a five-year absence.

De Chateauvieux, chairman of Bourbon, told TradeWinds in a telephone interview: “It’s going to give us a better momentum with the existing footprint that we have in the ethane business.”

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