EOn April 15, 2025, the 'Prevelis' has been transferred to the dock next to the 'Kriti I' in Elefsina, definitively closing its life cycle in Greek coastal shipping. Officially, the ferry will now have only one and final trip to the Aliiaga scrapyard.
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NIKA SPIRIT
Sold/Decommissioned
The National Agency of Ukraine for Finding, Tracing and Management of Assets Derived from Corruption and Other Crimes (ARMA) has put up for sale the 'Nika Spirit', which has been seized in Izmail, Odesa region. The auction is scheduled for April 21, 2025, with a starting price of UAH 2.438.5000. The vessel is actually a tanker for the transportation of oil products. It was built in 1989. The functional wear and tear is 80%. On Nov 4, 2024, the Dniprovsky District Court of Kyiv allowed the Asset Recovery and Management Agency (ARMA) to seize the Russian tanker, formerly known as 'Neyma', which was detained on July 24, 2019, in the port of Izmail. The vessel was identified as the one used to block the Kerch Strait on Nov 25, 2018., when it allegedly ran aground under the arch of the Kerch Bridge, while the Ukrainian ships 'Berdiansk' and 'Nikopol' and the tug 'Yany Kapu' were making a planned passage from the port of Odesa to the port of Mariupol in the Sea of Azov and were attacked by Russian warships, resulting in the capture of Ukrainian sailors.
FV JOSEPH ROTY 2
Sold/Decommissioned
The "Joseph Roty II" of the Compagnie des Pêches de Saint-Malo, has been docked in the port of Saint-Malo since December 2023. Since May 2024, the factory ship has been put uip for sale. It has still not found a buyer. The ad is still online on the specialist maritime brokerage website Atlantic Shipping, without the price A few potential buyers have come forward. f.e., in South Africa, but the ship remains stationary as of April 14, 2025: https://saint-malo.maville.com/actu/actudet_-toujours-a-quai-dans-le-port-de-saint-malo-le-joseph-roty-ii-est-a-vendre-_loc-6763479_actu.Htm#google_vignette
