The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) is battling through the courts to recover close to £100,000 ($170,000) in abandoned seafarer’s outstanding wages, repatriation and legal costs from the sale of the 43,866-dwt bulker Donald Duckling (built 1997).

The ship was arrested by port state control (PSC) at the Port of Tyne in the UK eight months ago and is now being sold by main creditor European Metal Recycling (EMR) through the courts.

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