Cruise ships are being dismantled and sold as scrap metal due to the coronavirus pandemic all but destroying the global cruise industry.The industry has suffered a downturn due to the pandemicEarlier this month, aerial footage shot by drones showed workers stripping walls, windows, floors and railings from several vessels docked in Aliaga, a town 45 kilometres north of Izmir on Turkey's west coast.
"There was growth in the sector due to the crisis. When the ships couldn't find work, they turned to dismantling."As many as 2,500 people work at the facility to dismantle ships. Cruise ships were home to the some of the earliest clusters of COVID-19 as the pandemic spread globally early this year.evacuate more than 150 Australians stuck onboard the Diamond PrincessWeeks later, it ordered foreign-flagged cruise ships out of Australian waters — a ban recently extended until at least December 17.was linked to at least 28 deaths.Stay up-to-date on the coronavirus outbreakHe said it took about six months to dismantle a full passenger ship.
The shipyard aimed to increase the volume of reclaimed steel to 1.1 million tonnes by the end of the year, from 700,000 tonnes in January, he said.
Hope the bloody Ruby Princess is one of them!!!!
You can see the ship second from right in top picture disappearing into the land. Hull is being cut up.
Floating shopping centres, and more recently Covid-19 factories. Good to see them go. High time.
Stupid things to begin with, when you think about it.
They have always been Petri dishes infecting ports wherever they go. Good riddance.
Seems wasteful! Raft them all up with a few planks across the top. There’s a floating nation right there!
Who said the news is only bad. This is excellent
Nah they just getting rid of old stock ... they will be back ABC the pedlars of doom and gloom... Pity the ABC doesn’t get scraped one can only hope so !
Why not just rent the cabins at port till the dust settles? Can even throw the rod over the side and catch breakfast.
Put criminals on them and send them back to Britain.
Good riddance to the polluting, obscene dinosaurs of the sea.
Excellent! Filthy polluting Petri dishes
Good fucking riddance
Careful. The LNPCrimeFamily will bring them all to Australia for another round of covid exposure.
So only the metal is recycled. There are a kazillion fixtures and materials on one of those! What happens to all that stuff
Get rid of 90% of them
Giant polluters, good riddance.
Mothball them would be a better choice if they were mine. Like the star of India in San Diego.
kerrymcnasty Floating outbreaks...good riddance.
Park them off Sydney and sell them as apartments.
Floating petrie dishes
WestPapua,
🤔 wonder what they’ll make?
Cruise ships never crossed my mind. I traveled around the world by train. Staying at some marvelous places in: India Europe UK New Zealand Dodged America
At-least there are jobs now open to dismantling ships.
no more gastro factories
Or dock them somewhere and use them for the homeless - they still have a use
Finally some good news.
Some good news then.
Those things are floating cesspools that look like tenements anyway. It's a shame they're worth money for scrap, I'd prefer them cleaned out and sunk for artificial reefs.
endemic labour abuses, massive pollution and now sickness spreaders. good riddance I say.
Good
More good news.
Good.. cruise ships were never a good idea
Cruise ships are slave labor ships
Ship names?
Floating toilets
What a terrible waste...
Massive W