A damaged Bibby Line Group bulker is heading to a breakers yard in Turkey.
The 56,000-dwt Cheshire (built 2012) had been stuck in Motril, Spain, for seven months since its crew abandoned ship off the Canary Islands last August when its fertiliser cargo overheated.
It suffered damage to cargo holds.
The Ideal daily reported that it is now heading to Aliaga to be recycled.
Bibby Line confirmed this to TradeWinds and said the movement of the vessel was being performed in accordance with EU regulations and the scrapping would take place at a "green facility."
The bulker was en route from Norway to Thailand and had approached Gran Canaria to refuel.
Stevedoring, repairs and other works have cost more than EUR 8m ($9.9m), the report claimed.
The port of Motril was clsoed for three hours so that the ship could exit in an operation involving three tugs this week.
Its cargo of 42,000 tons of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium has been unloaded.
