Business relationships between the Martinos and Vafias families have deepened, with the two sides agreeing a long-term chartering deal between them for yet another aframax tanker.

Both sides confirm Ioannis Martinos’ Signal Maritime has fixed Stealth Maritime’s 116,300-dwt aframax Sea Hymn (built 2011) on a bareboat charter deal.

The ship is now trading in Signal’s fleet as the Signal Alpha.