The Tsakos Group of Greece has sold its oldest tanker amid a string of sales of elderly suezmaxes.

The Nikolas Tsakos-led company's private interests have sold the 164,000-dwt Silia T (built 2002), brokers said.

The Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries-built tanker has gone to an undisclosed buyer, they said.

The tanker, which underwent its last special survey in June 2017, fetched $15.5m