Pacmar’s plans for the ship are currently unknown. Calls to the company’s headquarters went unanswered this week but shipping databases indicate that the ship has been renamed Ark and that it has been reclassified as an accommodation vessel.

Pelni sold the Kerinci by tender at the end of September for IDR 26.5bn ($2.2m). It had been laid up at Tanjung Priok since last year and was widely expected to go for recycling.

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