V.Ships Greece and Empros Lines have expanded their joint shipmanagement operation with a 10-year-old panamax that was traded on the sale-and-purchase market two months ago.

Clients of Empros, an Athens shipmanager, have emerged as the buyers of the 78,800-dwt bulker Triton Gannet (built 2009, renamed Maria D).

Triton Navigation sold the ­Sanoyas Shipbuilding Corp-built vessel in mid-May for around $13.8m.