Transocean Maritime Agencies has returned to the sale and purchase market, this time to sell an 11-year-old panamax bulker at a profit of almost $3m.

European brokers say the Monaco-based shipowner has sold the 76,000-dwt Atlas B (built 2008) to Omicron Ship Management of Greece for $12.2m.

The company paid just $9.6m when it bought the ship, then known as Atlas Island, from Iino Marine in August 2016.