Allseas Marine has scored a lucrative time charter for a suezmax tanker in a deal that highlighted good timing of its 2017 return to the tanker sector.

Michael Bodouroglou-controlled shipowner has chartered its 159,000-dwt RS Aurora (built 2018) for 12 months to PetroChina, European brokers said.

Market sources said the rate is for more than $45,000 per day, meaning more than $16.4m