He’s back! Well, sort of.

The return of legendary Greek shipowner George Economou to the US capital markets is this time happening not through one of his own companies, but rather via buying more than 1m shares in New York-listed aframax tanker owner Performance Shipping.

Nasdaq-listed Performance revealed in a filing with US securities regulators on Friday that Economou and his Sphinx Investments vehicle had snapped up a 9.5%