CM Lemos company Nereus Shipping has reportedly sold a bulker pair ordered expensively at the height of the dry bulk boom in 2008, just before the market crashed.

A sale would be in line with several similar deals by high-profile Greek companies that seem to think the moment is right to part with ships of that size class.

Broking sources in the US and Athens said Nereus's 58,000-dwt Asiatic and Laconic (both built 2012) are sold for $11.5m