Multiple broking reports list Tsakos selling its entire ice-class MR fleet. The Greek owner is reported selling six ageing ships to Middle Eastern interests for $21m each, although the ships in question remain on Tsakos’s fleet list on its website.
The reported sold tankers are the 18-year-old, 53,100 dwt sister ships Afrodite, Ajax, Apollon, Ariadne, Adis and Artemis – all built at Hyundai Mipo.
Brokers describe the price as firm with the sale coming just three weeks before the European Union ban on Russian-linked product tankers kicks in.
