Accommodations were not excessively spacious, but very cozy. Especially they were a little bit better than on some polish built container vessels i sailed on and really far better than on some chinese built vessels i visited.

It,s a pity,,,but selfinflicted to a great extend. I saw them often and always liked the bridge design by view, no idea though how they were on the inside

Hi there!
Company Buss sold a whole bunch of comparatively young vessels in the last few month. Especially their fleet of Wismar built MTW CC 1600 type vessels was completely sold off. While only 'Warnow Trader' was sold to another company, 'Ocean Trader', 'Dollart Trader', 'Pacific Trader', 'Elbe Trader', 'Trave Trader' and 'Atlantic Trader' went all to the breakers.
It's too bad, because they were properly designed and well maintained ships.

Blimey, I only saw this vessel sailing into Rotterdam on 28th August this year ! Thanks for posting.
regards, Mick

I also think that the reason for scrap this vessel comes as the result of a bad container market. This ship has only sailing on the charter market but in these times it is difficult to get a charter for your ship.

Of course it cost a lot of money to maintain a ship on the anchorage.

And, Buss is not the biggest company in the world. They also don't have a lot of money.

So the only reason to get some money is to scrap this vessel.

Phil
don,t think that this is the entire case,, see also Miraflores posting. A lot of Buss ships were actually taken
into insolvency and then wrecked off. I remember in the early 80,s same thing, ships were send to Rotterdam, banks took them over,,re-sold them or send them to the wrecker and the name Buss for this practise popped up a few times too often lately.

Ted, Buss hasn't been taken over by anyone. As I've said a few times here, the container shipping market is in dire straits and there is too much tonnage chasing too few charters. She was scrapped simply because her previous charter ended and there was no further employment for her either through charter or sale.
Brgds
Phil

Capt. Ted,
a list of companies insolvency was opened at the court in Leer/Ostfriesland the last months.

http://i49.tinypic.com/xfx36b.jpg

And many, many companies (1 ship fonds) will follow

Rgds. Juergen

I heard rumors that Reederei Buss is/was taken over by the bankers, could hat be the reason why a rather young vessel is send to the breakers. The bank needs clean sheets more or less ?
brgds
capt ted

Thanks for uploading this interesting picture of the Dollar Trader, Petros. A couple of months ago she come from Africa to Rotterdam with empyy containers and after unloading her cargo she was directly go to Aliaga.

Good point Geoff. But when does a ship become not a ship? And as the vessel has been sold to Turkish breakers, surely no courtesy flag is required by now!
I guess it is really not important at the scrapyard.
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SteKrueBe, @ only 15 years old, and, I assume, with no major defect or breakdown, then this is a sad sight indeed.
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A superb photo Petros. Thank you.

Regards, Rick

Still flying her courtesy flag ?

Without any doubt - that is (or was) 'Dollart Trader' of company Hermann Buss with IMO No. 9162356.
I spent several very nice contracts on this ship, so it's really painful for me to see her at the breakers yard. In my opinion it was a waste of work and money to keep her always in such a proper condition, only to see her scrapped this young.
Farewell 'Dolly'!

DOLLART TRADER - IMO 9162356
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1686683