Shipping Corp of India (SCI) has sold an elderly passenger and cargoship that had spent most of its operational life serving India's island territories.

The 9,700-gt Harsha Vardhana (built 1974) was this week en route to Colombo in Sri Lanka, where it is to be handed over to a cash buyer for onward delivery to shipbreakers in Alang.

Several shipbrokers report that the ship was sold for $2.3m.