Greek shipowner Allseas Marine is testing the sale-and-purchase (S&P) market by putting an eight-year-old panamax bulker on the sales block.

Managing director Michael Bodouroglou confirms to TradeWinds that the 75,000-dwt Dream Seas (built 2009) has been put on the market for potential sale.

But he describes the effort as the type of test that Allseas carries out from time to time to gauge market interest.