Diamantis Lemos Shipping has sold a 2003-built product tanker pair to cash buyers for eventual demolition, slashing its oil carrier fleet in half.

Athens-based brokers report this week the company has shed the 72,300-dwt tanker Georgis Nikolos (built 2003) at an undisclosed price.

This comes barely a month after information it sold another Hudong Zhonghua-built sistership, the 72,300-dwt Kyriakoula (built 2003).