Dogged confidence in tankers at a time when the sector’s prospects looked dim is paying off big time for Athens-based Aerio Shipmanagement.

The low-profile company has been offering for sale the 109,600-dwt LR2 product tanker Sea Senor (built 2006) — a vessel that was trading as Zantoro when Aerio agreed to buy it for $12.6m in February 2022, just one day before the Ukraine war broke out.