Turkish shipbreakers are getting ready to chomp on the 15,000-gt ro-pax ferry Caribbean Galaxy (built 1973), which departed Piraeus for Aliaga under tow on Sunday evening.

TradeWinds understands that the long laid-up ship was sold via a court process.

The sale brings to a close the ambitions of US-based Atlantic Blue Seaways to launch a Caribbean ferry service. The company bought the ship in early 2016 but apart from giving it a new paint job, never traded it in commercial service.