Hafnia has taken advantage of a market run on smaller tankers to offload some of its oldest units.

Following a string of sales since December, the Oslo-listed, BW Group-owned tanker owner sold a trio of handysize MRs for $35.5m in total, according to brokers and ship management sources in Athens and London.

The ships are the 39,800-dwt Hafnia Rainier, Hafnia Robson and 40,000-dwt Hafnia Adamello (all built 2004), built at Saiki Heavy Industries in Japan.