Cruise Ships Being Scrapped

Well over three dozen cruise ships were scrapped or sold over the past year as cruise lines struggled to survive.

Cruise ships being scrapped. I suppose many of the ships that were scrapped or sold just had their dates forced forward by the financial realities of the pandemic. With most of these ships being scrapped 15 years before the end of their lifespan theyre considered green by the industry - free of dangerous materials like asbestos. I dont know the number but in the normal process major cruise lines sell andor scrap older ships to make way for newer ones.

TPG recently published a list of 23 ships that we thought were most likely to be laid-up sold or scrapped in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic that included Costa Victoria Pacific Dawn Pacific Aria neoRomantica and Maasdam as well as several ships from Carnival Corporations Carnival Cruise Line and Princess Cruises brands. Old cruise vessels are either scrapped dismantled scuttled deliberately sunk or decommissioned from cruising service permanently berthed and turned into luxury dockside hotels or ship-museums. Even Norwegian Cruise Line one of the worlds biggest cruise lines was on the verge of.

An aerial view of cruise ships being broken down for scrap metal at the Aliaga Ship Recycling Facility in Turkey. Especially because pandemics a lot of older ship are scrapped. At the Aliaga ship.

The ship has had her valuable and important. The cruise ship industry do send old ships to be scrapped safely at EU-approved yards but when sold at auction which often happens when a company goes into administration this decision is. The MS Sovereign which was also part of the Pullmantur Cruises fleet is being scrapped due to the cruise line filing for bankruptcy in June 2020.

How 300 million Carnival cruise ships are demolished in Turkey. The third ship of the pioneering Royal Viking Line spent many years as a German cruise ship named Albatros and just recently was also sold for scrap. A total of 34 cruise ships have been sold or scrapped off this year.

A whopping 26 cruise ships have been sold or scrapped during the pandemic you will be shocked how young some of these ships are. Though a buyer has not been announced the vessels age puts it in danger of being scrapped. While it is not uncommon for ships to start life with one line to then move to another line and be refurbished like Delta has done for years with old jets now more will simply be.