Diamantis Diamantides-controlled Delta Tankers has acquired the youngest VLCC in the fleet of the US-based Transportation Recovery Fund (TRF), according to market sources.

Several brokers in London and the US, as well as shipowning sources in Athens, said the 297,600-dwt TRF Horten (built 2018) is set to join the Delta fleet after changing hands for $72m.

An official at TRF's Oslo-based TRF Ship Management did not respond to a request for comment.