Cruise ships from Britain and the United States are being scrapped at a Turkish dock after the multi-billion pound industry was smashed by the coronavirus crisis.

The coronavirus cruise liner graveyard at the port in Aliaga, a town 30 miles north of Izmir on Turkey's west coast, bustled with work again on Friday as scrapyard workers stripped walls, windows and railings from five vessels.



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Five luxury cruise ships are seen being broken down for scrap metal at the Aliaga ship recycling port in Turkey. With the global coronavirus pandemic pushing the multi-billion dollar cruise industry into crisis, some cruise operators have been forced to cut losses and retire ships earlier than planned.

Luxury cruise ships are seen being broken down for scrap metal at the Aliaga ship recycling port on Friday in Izmir, Turkey.

Coro do people strong thing oh

Three more ships are set to join those already being dismantled.

Before the pandemic, the Turkey's ship-breaking yards typically handled cargo and container ships, Kamil Onal, chairman of a ship recycling industrialists' association, told Reuters.

'But after the pandemic, cruise ships changed course towards Aliaga yard in a very significant way,' he said.

Onal said some 2,500 people worked at the yard in teams that take around six months to dismantle a full passenger ship.

The vessels arrived from Britain, Italy and the United States.

The shipyard aims to increase the volume of dismantled steel to 1.1 million tonnes by the end of the year, from 700,000 tonnes in January, he said.

'We are trying to change the crisis into an opportunity,' he said.

why scrap the ships? can't it be used again after coro has gone? or e don reach expiry date

Bad business

No show Nigerian government this pictures o, before they will go and buy it and repaint and send to Nigeria as a new ship�

Coro is its bad news

It's an insane business world out there, and the top guys count their profits or losses in billions of dollars.
The competition is always intense and it's on a whole new level, so no one wants to just stand there, fold arms and watch.
Once the usual cash stops flowing in, it's time to change the game plan regardless of anything else. Cash must not stop flowing.
Money first, every other thing follows. That is the philosophy of the top guys.

War coming

okay

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Some people are still gaining from this however

Some folks are still gaining from this however

Am i the only one seeing the ships look like remote control from above

boujeeassnigga:
Am i the only one seeing the ships look like remote control from above

Oju ti owo

DankemzI:
why scrap the ships? can't it be used again after coro has gone? or e don reach expiry date

it will accumulate too much cost when it isn't working due to covid-19. It is very expensive to maintain, the owners will pay for everyday the ships are in harbour, it is not like Nigeria where owners of ships will just abandon the ships in the sea and walk away until after covid-19. Same thing with cars, Nigerians will just park them along the roadsides and streets for weeks, months or years and walk away till they are ready to repair them. This doesn't happen in sane societies. The owners of the cruise ships want to avoid too much costs and unnecessary losses in the long run.

DankemzI:
why scrap the ships? can't it be used again after coro has gone? or e don reach expiry date

they need the money to keep their business afloat

Airplanes are next. Everyone needs to be where they should be before that happens...

All this Nigeria scrap hunters go dey look for how them go take reach here