As rumours swirl around about who might buy Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG)’s international tanker fleet, there has been relatively little attention paid to one prospective acquirer.

Given that the owner sits only blocks away from OSG’s midtown Manhattan offices and is one of the greatest shipping dealmakers of the modern era — could Peter Georgiopoulos be hiding in plain sight?

Georgiopoulos and his Gener8 Maritime have come up only belatedly as the possible mystery suitor in the OSG hunt, and as TradeWinds reported last week, not with much conviction.

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