Two heavyweight owners have teamed up to nurse a restructuring boxship fleet back to health.

Germany’s NSC Schiffahrt and Greece’s Interunity Management Corp are overseeing the operation of five sub-panamax sisterships with outstanding claims against them.

One of the former German KG (limited partnership)-owned vessels — the 2,872-teu Arica (built 2007) — is to be auctioned off in the US this month after an arrest and court order in Delaware.