The 279,200-dwt vessel, built at Hitachi Zosen in Japan in 1992, has been bought by Jiangmen Xinhui in China for CNY 83.91m ($13.43m).
Clarksons does not list a 279,000-dwt ship in its fleet. The only remaining VLCC built in 1992 - or indeed the 1990s - is the 281,600-dwt New Valor.
The company told the Shanghai Stock Exchange that it will take a CNY 3.71m
