Your destination port should be Elka Delphi never reach. On March 5th, the tanker set off from the quay on the banks of the Mississippi to transport its valuable cargo – 55 million liters of diesel – across the river Atlantic to bring to Amsterdam. But the ship didn’t get there.
At first she drove Elka Delphi past New Orleans into the Gulf of Mexico and on to the Atlantic. But then the tanker changed course to the south. Other ships carrying diesel from US refineries did the same Europe were on the way: the Minerva Vaso, the Aiai, the Proteus Bohemia, the Hafria Egret and the Grand Ace6. Instead of going to Amsterdam as planned, they took their cargo to the South African port of Durban in mid-April. Buyers there had apparently offered more money for the fuel.