Hi all
Am I cynical or what? I get the feeling that someone on the payroll of shipbreakers offers to buy old ships for whatever reason. Gets the owners of the ship to sail it to him. He then renegades on the deal. Now the ship is near the shipbreakers yard - they offer to scrap it. As nobody else wants the ship and it's too far to return to 'home', shipbreaker gets at rock bottom price.