Capital Maritime & Trading has placed a capesize bulker back on the market more than a year after a prior effort to sell the vessel.
Shipbrokers said the Evangelos Marinakis-controlled company has put the 179,000-dwt Amorito (built 2012) on the sales block. The ship can be inspected in Hong Kong.
The vessel could fetch $23m in today's market, brokers believe.
Capital Maritime did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
A sale of the vessel comes as Capital Maritime draws closer to exiting the capesize bulker sector after a string of 2016 purchases that were seen as an asset play move.
However, the current poor dry bulk freight market may have made it challenging to score a profitable deal with the latest bulker sale.
South Korean-built
Capital Maritime bought the Sungdong Shipbuilding-constructed Amorito in October 2016, when it was the Gran Trader. The Greek company paid $22.4m to Japan's Nisshin Shipping for the vessel.
The ship was reported to have been sold to an undisclosed buyer in December 2017 for $32.5m, but that deal did not finalised.
While the renewed effort to sell the Amorito is unlikely to be lucrative at prevailing prices, prior Capital Maritime capesize sales were more profitable.
The company sold the 179,000-dwt Asterix (built 2010) in August 2017 for $20.5m.
Capital Maritime bought the Hyundai Heavy Industries-built vessel in September 2016, when it was ER Schiffahrt's ER Boston, for $20.5m.
The company also managed to sell the 179,000-dwt Aristofanis (built 2011) at a profitable $31.1m in May 2017.
Capital Maritime had purchased the Sungdong-built vessel for $21.3m in November 2016, when it was SK Shipping's K Adventure.
If the Amorito is sold, that would leave just one of the company's 2016 capesize purchases in its fleet, data from VesselsValue shows. Capital Maritime bought 179,000-dwt Amigo II (built 2011) in 2016 for $21.3m, and it is now worth an estimated $20.8m, the valuation platform shows.
