The West Connect Building in an industrial district of Singapore houses a new player in the saga surrounding the alleged dark fleet VLCC that tried to do a runner after colliding with a Hafnia product tanker off Malaysia on 19 July.
In a move that has all the optics of an attempt to distance Shanghai Prosperity Ship Management from the 300,000-dwt crude tanker Ceres I (built 2001), Blueshark Shipping, a previously unheard of Singapore-registered ship manager, is purported to have been its manager at the time of the collision.
