One of the world’s last combination cargo and passengerships is ending a long career on a shipbreaker’s beach in Pakistan.
Dubai-based Sontech Enterprises has sold the 5,200-gt general cargo/passengership Sobat (built 1990) for recycling. The vessel was this week anchored off Gadani Beach waiting to be beached.
Capable of carrying general cargo, 79 containers and 248 passengers, the ship had been acquired as Mauritius Pride in late 2004 amid expectations that it would be used to start a new liner and ferry service between the Maldives and Sri Lanka.
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