But under a rehabilitation scheme, the company can only repay a fraction of its debt to creditors, it revealed in a court filing.

Daiichi, in a final submission of its rehabilitation plan, says three more companies have joined the original 14 announced two weeks ago, bringing an additional ¥200m ($1.79m) to the table.

Funds from the 17 shipowning and shipbuilding companies named as Daiichi sponsors will now be injecting a total of ¥2.49bn