Scrap bids are being solicited for an elderly cruiseship that has spent the past two years sitting partly submerged at the West India Shipyard in the port of Mormugoa.

The 35,100-gt Qing (built 1982) was refloated in June by salvors appointed by Balaji Fuels , a Gujarati company that purchased the ship shortly after the Mormugao Port Trust (MPT) petitioned the Bombay High Court to have the ship declared an abandoned wreck and allow it to organize its disposal.