Built for the Shipping Corporation of India subsidiary Mogul Line to transport Indian Muslim pilgrims to Mecca, the 9,500-gt Indian passenger-cargo ship Akbar (built 1971) is scheduled to slip its lay-up moorings in Chennai this week and make one final voyage that will end shipbreaking beaches of Alang.
The ship, built by Denmark’s Helsingor Skibsvaerft og Maskinbyggeri, was the last ever built to ferry pilgrims taking part in the Haj.
