Prothonotary Richard Morneau gave his thumbs up to the sale of the 29,400-dwt Phoenix Sun (ex-VSL Centurion, built 1987) for nearly CAD $683,000 ($604,000), according to the Federal Court docket.

The buyer, one of two vying for the ship, is a company known as Holborn Shipping. The company is understood to be planning to scrap the ship in India.

The bulker has been under arrest off the Quebec city of Sorel since late July after Canadian investment company Ballantrae Holdings filed a CAD 1.24m