Salamis Lines has announced that a deal to sell its 15,400-gt cruiseship Salamis Filoxenia (built 1975) in a deal that would see it operated by Argentinian cruise start-up Pampa Cruises is dead in the water.

Pampa signed a memorandum of understanding to charter the veteran cruiseship in November from its new owner, and it was supposed to have taken delivery by 20 December.