Gulf Navigation Holdings has sold a medium-range chemical tanker that has origins stretching back to the time the company had a close relationship with Stolt-Nielsen, several brokers reported.

Undisclosed Chinese interests are paying about $19m for the Dubai-listed shipowner's 46,000-dwt Gulf Mirdif (built 2010), according to several shipbroking reports published over the past week.

The vessel, which was constructed at South Korea's SLS Shipbuilding, is due for its special survey in July this year.