ShipDesk, the UK-based online ship chartering site, has sunk into liquidation in the same week that LevelSeas, a web-enabled chartering tools provider, pulled in extra ballast with a second round of funding.

ShipDesk headed for trouble when both Tufton Oceanic, the shipping financiers backed by US-based private equity firm GE Capital, and software house Optimark Technologies pulled out. Both were founding partners.