New cruise ship for the scrap yard

[Mr Gus]

https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... e-scrapped

Whilst there is chaos at the UK airports (any others experiencing the same degree of debacle abroad I wonder) a cruise ship at a German shipyard which has been sold to the naval arm of the German forces, cannot find a gamer for the hull, which belonged to a "gone belly up" cruise operator.

What does it say for the post covid recovery of the very polluting cruise industry!?

[nowty]

It does not necessarily mean the ship will be scrapped, just it will be sold on for the scrap price.

[Mr Gus]

British forces can pee money away, the Germans may be the same, or, despite not actively using the berths & building there, may simply clean sweep any non essentials.

However media coverage is good for attracting potential buyers, such as a loaded oil sheikh to get some better than scrap prices out of it, someone willing to sit on it till things recover-ish.

Stick it on the Thames estuary as a temporary parliament building & stick a Wetherspoons on it, they'll never leave.

[Ken]

Not to mention the debacle over Scottish ferries which will be out of date before delivered. This is the future https://www.el-færgeprojekt.dk/nyheder/ ... at-results