Hadjiyiannis-led Cyprus Maritime is understood to have paid around $75m for the six ships, which account for all of Blenheim’s surviving fleet.
The UK owner’s exit from shipowning, at least for now, comes only seven months after it sold its aframax fleet to Idan Ofer’s Eastern Pacific for $210m.
The ships heading for Cyprus Maritime are the 93,000-dwt Ocean Breeze (built 2009), the 91,000-dwt trio Sea Breeze (built 2009), Moon Breeze (built 2011) and Star Breeze (built 2010) and the 2004 built, 76,300-dwt pair Atlantic Breeze and Pacific Breeze.
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