Diamantis Diamantides has won the race for the first tanker auctioned off from the Brightoil Petroleum fleet, market sources say.

Diamantides is known to be actively pursuing opportunities in the big tanker space ahead of an anticipated upturn around IMO 2020.

His Delta Tankers is understood to have bought the 318,000-dwt Brightoil Glory (built 2012), which TradeWinds reported earlier this week to have been auctioned by the High Court of Hong Kong.