In January 2010, Donbass Merchant Fleet, a Mariupol-based ltd. Comp., (Ukraine) sold a 15.871-dwt MMP "Boris Babochkin" ship (built in 1984) for scrap to India. The contract value is $2.63 million, Trans-Port reports with reference to the Greek brokers’ data.

Donbass Merchant Fleet provides transportation services across the world, operating the lines of Azov-Black Sea, Mediterranean-Baltic Sea, West Africa, Canada, USA, Caribbean, South America, India, etc.