LEFTERIS T (IMO 9621170) detained at Rotterdam, October 2026
The 2012-built handymax bulker LEFTERIS T has been detained at Rotterdam, marking its first recorded detention in over 14 years of service across 46 prior port state control inspections. The vessel changed hands, name, flag, and class society in April 2025, and its management chain has been reshuffled repeatedly since 2021, a factor that dominates its risk profile.
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LEFTERIS T was detained by Netherlands port state control at Rotterdam on 2 October 2026. The number of deficiencies and their specific codes are not yet available from the THETIS record. The vessel was moored in the North Sea area at the time, listed with a current draught of 8.8 metres and a destination of Rotterdam. The detention falls under the Paris MoU regime, where the vessel had only one prior inspection on record: a clean expanded inspection at Klaipeda, Lithuania, in September 2025 that produced a single deficiency and no detention.
The vessel
LEFTERIS T is a 23,494 GT handymax bulk carrier built in 2012 at the Samjin shipyard in Weihai, China. She measures 180 metres LOA with a beam of 30 metres and a deadweight of approximately 36,006 tonnes. The vessel is geared, fitted with cranes, and powered by a MAN B&W 5S50MC-C two-stroke diesel engine. She trades under the Marshall Islands flag, to which she was reflagged from Panama in April 2025. Classification was transferred from Korean Register to Lloyd's Register at approximately the same time; the KR entry was formally withdrawn on 30 May 2025. Until April 2025 she sailed as DL MARIGOLD. At 14 years old, she sits in the middle age band for the global handymax fleet.
Inspection history
The vessel's PSC record is extensive: 46 inspections spanning from May 2012 to June 2026, conducted across six MoU regimes. The Tokyo MoU accounts for the bulk of the record with 30 inspections, followed by the Indian Ocean MoU (7), USCG (4), Mediterranean MoU (3), Paris MoU (1), and Abuja MoU (1). Not a single one of those 46 inspections resulted in detention. Total deficiencies across the entire record stand at 40, yielding a deficiency rate of 0.87 per inspection, a figure that is moderate for a vessel of this age and trading pattern. Two inspections produced notably higher deficiency counts: Lianyungang, China, in June 2016 (7 deficiencies) and Fremantle, Australia, in July 2020 (7 deficiencies), both under previous Korean management. In each case, follow-up inspections cleared the vessel without further findings. More recent inspections under Load Line Marine have been relatively clean: zero deficiencies at Brownsville, Texas, in June 2026, and one deficiency at Klaipeda in September 2025. The Iligan inspection in March 2025, conducted days before the management transfer, recorded three deficiencies but no detention. The Rotterdam detention therefore represents a sharp break from the vessel's established record. It is the first time in the ship's operational life that she has been held.
Ownership and management
LEFTERIS T has experienced significant management churn. The current ownership and management structure took effect on 9 April 2025, when Athens-based Load Line Marine SA assumed the roles of ship manager, commercial manager, and ISM manager. Registered ownership simultaneously transferred to Eleftherios Maritime Ltd, a Monrovia-registered entity. At the same time, the vessel was renamed from DL MARIGOLD to LEFTERIS T, reflagged from Panama to Marshall Islands, and moved class from Korean Register to Lloyd's Register. The timeline of prior management changes is telling. The vessel was originally managed by BY Shipping Co Ltd from delivery in 2012. POS SM Co Ltd took over ship management and ISM duties in January 2021. Just over a year later, in May 2022, Dong-A Tanker Corp assumed ship management while STX Marine Service Co Ltd became ISM manager. In November 2024, KMARIN Ocean Services Corp replaced STX as ISM manager. Five months later, the entire structure was replaced again by Load Line Marine. That amounts to four distinct management regimes in roughly four years, a rate of churn that the VesselScore model penalises at the maximum rate. Load Line Marine operates a fleet of 18 vessels from its Athens office.
Risk profile
VesselScore rates LEFTERIS T at 66.4 out of 100, placing her in the 'average risk' calibration band with an estimated detention probability of 3.1%. The single largest risk contributor is manager churn (c4), which scores the maximum 15 out of 15 penalty points, reflecting the rapid succession of management changes documented between 2021 and 2025. The vessel's age baseline contributes 6.3 points out of 10, consistent with a 14-year-old hull. Deficiency rate (c1) adds 4 points, and severity mix (c3) adds 3.3 points, both moderate. An AIS behaviour component (c9) adds 3 points, driven by three loitering events and no AIS gaps. The flag and class component (c5) contributes 2 points. On the positive side, the vessel carries zero penalty for prior detentions (c2), hull condition (c8), sanctions exposure (c10), or casualty history (c11). No recent MRV data was available for the fuel efficiency component. The overall picture is of a vessel whose operational record has been sound but whose corporate governance history introduces significant counterparty risk. The Rotterdam detention, while unprecedented in the vessel's inspection history, arrives at a moment when the risk model already flagged elevated concern.
What to watch
Charterers and underwriters should monitor the release conditions at Rotterdam closely, as the specific deficiency codes have not yet been published. Once available, they will indicate whether the detention relates to structural, safety equipment, or operational shortcomings, each of which carries different implications for a vessel that changed class society only 17 months ago. The next Paris MoU inspection will almost certainly be an expanded inspection given the detention, raising the ship's targeting profile in European waters for the foreseeable future. Load Line Marine has been managing the vessel for approximately 18 months; this detention will be a test of whether the Athens office can demonstrate a credible corrective response. Any charterer considering fixing this vessel should request full details of the Lloyd's Register class transfer survey and the most recent annual survey results.
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