Deserted livestock provider to be auctioned in Australia

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Yangtze Fortune, a 2005-built livestock provider, can be auctioned in Australia 4 months after the ship was arrested over unpaid payments.

Greater than 30 Filipino seafarers onboard the Liberian flagged ship, owned by a Chinese language firm based mostly in Dalian, are owed many months in again wages with Australian authorities suspecting the transformed containership had been deserted when it was arrested on the port of Portland in September final yr.

In addition to cash owed to crew, the ship faces payments for bunkers in addition to a writ from an Australian livestock producer for failing to ship produce on time.