Low-profile Greek shipowner Halkidon Shipping has emerged as the buyer of an LR2 tanker from the former fleet of collapsed owner Toisa.
The Piraeus-based company bought the 112,000-dwt product tanker United Fortitude (built 2010), which has joined its fleet as the Elli. The tanker was purchased for $22m, according to data from VesselsValue.
The price is the same as compatriot Stealth Maritime paid for sistership United Grace (built 2010).
Halkidon Shipping did not respond to requests for comment.
London shipbroker Clarksons was appointed in April to handle a sale of 20 Toisa ships and six newbuildings.
The ships have all been sold, mostly to different Greek buyers, but the buyer of the United Fortitude was unclear.
The Elli is the first on-the-water vessel that Halkidon Shipping has bought since it picked up the DSME-built, 70,000-dwt tanker LR Regulus (built 2004) for $21m in October 2013 from Alma Maritime, before renaming it Theodosia.
Glencore shipping subsidiary ST Shipping has chartered that vessel for up to eight months at $15,700 per day, market sources said.
Including the Elli, Halkidon Shipping is listed with seven vessels at an average age of nine years. The company has one other LR2 tanker, the 115,000-dwt Kleon (built 2016).
Last year, Halkidon Shipping sold the 15,400-dwt tanker Terry (built 1999) to NT Marine of Estonia.
