Legal battle breaks out between alleged co-owners of sanctioned dark fleet tanker set for scrap

What was supposed to be a simple scrap sale of a sanctioned MR2 product tanker has turned into a legal minefield for its owner Starline Express Shipping.

Instead, aggrieved alleged co-owners and technical managers boarded the 47,400-dwt Nirvana (built 1999) with arrest warrants as soon as it dropped anchor off the ship recycling beach at Alang last week.

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The vessel, which has been under US sanctions as a dark fleet vessel since it was trading under the name Dancy Dynamic in 2023, was sold to an Indian ship recycler at a discounted price of $400 per ldt, or $3.85m.