the owner would abandon the ship, leaving her to be scrapped at their expense. French environmental associations such as Robin des Bois blamed Finnish environmental officials for letting Onyx leave Finland in the first place, claiming that it was certain that the ship would be scrapped and demanded the ship to be returned to Finland. The crew told the press that they hadn't received their pay for two months, resulting in the French officials detaining the ship, and most of them refused to continue journey before all four engines were in working order. The captain also admitted that the ship was heading for a scrap yard in Bangladesh instead of a ship yard in Turkey and was reportedly fired afterwards, but a representative of the shipping company later denied this. However, the only shipyard in Iskenderun, Turkey, where the owner claimed the ship would be heading for repairs, announced that they were not expecting Onyx to arrive there. The destination was subsequently changed to a shipyard in Piraeus, Greece, and the ship left Brest on 10 February 2010, heading for Gibraltar. Due to bad weather the ship took shelter in Lisbon, Portugal, on 16 February 2010. The destination was changed to Limassol, Cyprus, and Onyx continued her journey on 3 March 2010, stopping at Malta for refueling. However, the ship passed Cyprus and arrived in Port Said, Egypt to wait for transit through the Suez Canal. The ship lowered her anchor outside Port Rashid in Dubai on 17 April 2010 where she was sold to Red Line Shipping Ltd and renamed Kaptain Boris. On 7 May 2010 the Finnish Environment Institute admitted that the ship might be heading for a scrapyard and is considering further actions against the new owners if it looks like the institute was deliberately deceived. The new owner sailed the ship to Gadani Beach, Pakistan, where she was beached for scrapping on 8 May 2010. On 19 May 2010 the Finnish Environment Institute decided to contact the previous owner and Pakistani officials concerning the scrapping of the ship, and deliver the latter information about the hazardous materials inside the vessel. See also GTS Finnjet – another Finnish ship that recently brought the environmental problems of ship breaking in poor countries into headlines References External links Valkeat Laivat (in Finnish) M/S Fennia at Fakta om Fartyg (in Swedish) Vasabåtarna – Nostalgi (in Swedish) Vaasanlaivat (in English) Ferries