Taiwan’s Chinese Maritime Transport (CMT) is moving forward with its dry bulk newbuilding project at a domestic yard.

The owner of 13 vessels spread across capesize and newcastlemax segments has settled to contract two more 210，000 dwt units at CSBC Corporation.

The newbuilds， costing about $77.5m each， will feature scrubbers and likely be delivered between 2027 and 2028， according to shipbuilding sources.

The move follows a brace of newcastlemaxes booked for construction at CSBC last August with options secured for two more newbuilds.

Prior to this four-ship order， CMT， which owns and operates its bulker fleet through Singapore and Hong Kong subsidiaries， contracted newcastlemax specialist builder Qingdao Beihai for four vessels in 2021， including the 2024-built China Vista (pictured).