AS RIGAS TRANSPORTA FLOTE.

The funnel follows a portside photograph of China Spirit dated 26 March 2010, from an apparently chartered tanker fleet. The same emblem appears on the company’s archived website. It is also seen on the starboard side of Marlin on 7 April 2013, after the reported liquidation. The accompanying discussion lists Dayspring International as registered owner and questions why the funnel differs from the usual Lavinia/Laskaridis or Alison Management colours. A possible Petrobras charter is mentioned, without resolving the attribution.

Contributor mcole supplied further logo references and noted that Marlin was crewed by Seamen’s Training Centre, a Ukrainian-Greek venture with Laskaridis Shipping. The suggestion that the vessel, delivered in 2011, had been intended for Riga Transport Fleet as it entered liquidation is explicitly conjectural. The contributor records subsequent management by Alison Management Corporation, a Laskaridis sister company. The reason for retaining the funnel remains unresolved.