A Chinese-owned livestock carrier deemed abandoned by its owners in Australia and ordered sold will go under the hammer on 10 February.

Soar Harmony Shipping’s 11,670-gt Yangtze Fortune (built 2005) will be sold via a sealed tender auction, with Australian Independent Shipbrokers appointed to handle the judicial sale.

The Yangtze Fortune has been languishing at Portland — a port in the Australian state of Victoria — since the end of September 2022.