Lower interest expenses of $1.7m and more earning days helped drive the improvement on the $5m loss seen a year ago.

Time charter equivalent earnings (TCE) rose 7.9% to $12.8m and would have been higher but for the dry docking of three vessels.

Operating costs inched up 1.5% to $9.4m thanks in part to one-off costs of $1.5m arising from the change of technical managers.

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