Just as it doubled its money with the sale of an LR2 tanker, the Vafias clan expanded its dry bulk bet with three acquisitions on the secondhand market.

Brave Maritime — the private dry arm of the Greek family’s shipping group — swooped on a pair of capesizes sold by Goodbulk.

The first of these ships is the 182,100-dwt Aquavictory (built 2010), which changed hands in the first half of March for $26.5m,