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Cruise ship industry floundering, ships being sold for recycling
The cruise ship industry is fast being wiped out by the Kung Flu, an entire
industry that is being destroyed. The other industry that will also soon be gone will be the movie theater industry. Next, the powers-that-be will have to admit that commercial air travel is basically done. The world is getting very small, very fast. And not in the hippie-happy sense of "we’re all connected now!" Line 'em up: https://tinyurl.com/yxmz7fmk --------------------------------------------------------------------- Cruise ships dismantled for scrap metal as coronavirus pandemic sinks industry 10/12/2020 Cruise ships are being dismantled and sold as scrap metal due to the coronavirus pandemic all but destroying the global cruise industry. Earlier 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. Three more ships are set to join five already being dismantled. Chairman of a ship recycling industrialists' association, Kamil Onal, said before the pandemic Turkey's ship-breaking yards typically handled cargo and container ships. "But after the pandemic, cruise ships changed course towards Aliaga in a very significant way," he said. "There was growth in the sector due to the crisis. When the ships couldn't find work, they turned to dismantling." The vessels have arrived for dismantling from Britain, Italy and the United States. Cruise ships were home to the some of the earliest clusters of COVID-19 as the pandemic spread globally early this year. In February, the Australian Government had to evacuate more than 150 Australians stuck onboard the Diamond Princess off Japan. Weeks later, it ordered foreign-flagged cruise ships out of Australian waters — a ban recently extended until at least December 17. The now-infamous Ruby Princess was allowed to dock in Sydney, though, with a special commission of inquiry finding the ship was linked to at least 28 deaths. In March, US authorities issued a no-sail order for all cruise ships. It remains in place. Mr Onal said some 2,500 people worked at the yard in teams. He 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. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-...id-19/12752382 But that isn’t the point here. The point is, whatever the tastefulness or morality of this industry, it is an entire industry which is being destroyed. The other industry they are preparing to admit is gone forever is slightly less obscene – the movie theater industry. Next, they’re going to have to admit that commercial air travel is basically done. The world is getting very small, very fast. And not in the hippy-happy sense of “we’re all connected now!” Rather, it’s getting smaller in the sense of the trash compactor on the Death Star. |
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Cruise ship industry floundering, ships being sold for recycling
On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 10:52:17 -0500
"Byker" wrote: Earlier 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. A lot of that goes on in Chittagong, Bangladesh, as well, with little concern for worker safety. -- Lies, greed, envy, endemic corruption, hunger for power, unbridled hate, institutional sociopathy... The largest political terrorist organisation in the Southern Hemisphe *Australian Labor Party - corrupt to the core* |
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Cruise ship industry floundering, ships being sold for recycling
"Mr. Mag00" wrote in message ...
On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 10:52:17 -0500 "Byker" wrote: Earlier 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. A lot of that goes on in Chittagong, Bangladesh, as well, with little concern for worker safety. They'd starve without it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4cVGWTzKo8 |
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Cruise ship industry floundering, ships being sold for recycling
"Cruises" are DEATH. Everybody knows it.
It is the END of that "industry" for a long time to come. Norovirus was the sign, COVID was the hammer. A pity to junk all the ships though .... gotta be some other uses for them. The ultrarich could BUY them as private yachts ............ |
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Cruise ship industry floundering, ships being sold for recycling
On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 14:11:53 -0500, "Byker" wrote:
"Mr. Mag00" wrote in message ... On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 10:52:17 -0500 "Byker" wrote: Earlier 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. A lot of that goes on in Chittagong, Bangladesh, as well, with little concern for worker safety. They'd starve without it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4cVGWTzKo8 Cruises are ALL OVER ... maybe for a decade or so. They are just VIRAL DEATH. |
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Cruise ship industry floundering, ships being sold for recycling
Phantom_View wrote:
On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 14:11:53 -0500, "Byker" wrote: "Mr. Mag00" wrote in message ... On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 10:52:17 -0500 "Byker" wrote: Earlier 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. A lot of that goes on in Chittagong, Bangladesh, as well, with little concern for worker safety. They'd starve without it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4cVGWTzKo8 Cruises are ALL OVER ... maybe for a decade or so. They are just VIRAL DEATH. Nothing ca be done for (small?) minority to survive/adapt? Darwin Theory is about total wipe outs or *survival* of he fittest? Even in your scenario it makes sense to preserve (small?) holdouts for faster/easier restart after a few years. -- A. Filip | It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever | final. (Roger Babson) |
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Cruise ship industry floundering, ships being sold for recycling
On 13 Oct 2020, Phantom_View wrote
(in ): "Cruises" are DEATH. Everybody knows it. It is the END of that "industry" for a long time to come. Norovirus was the sign, COVID was the hammer. A pity to junk all the ships though .... gotta be some other uses for them. The ultrarich could BUY them as private yachts ............ Better still, just scuttle them around the English fishing conservation areas. That would stop foreign fishing vessels from trawling and destroying our seas; and would create protected breeding areas for what is left of our fish stocks. https://www.theguardian.com/environm...aled-97-of-uk- offshore-marine-parks-subject-to-destructive-fishing |
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Cruise ship industry floundering, ships being sold for recycling
"A. Filip" wrote in message ...
Even in your scenario it makes sense to preserve (small?) holdouts for faster/easier restart after a few years. That "restart" will probably be in the form of charter cruises for the nouveau riche, interracial couples, queers, vegans, eco-kooks, and animal-rights wackos... |
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Cruise ship industry floundering, ships being sold for recycling
On 13 Oct 2020, Busta Capp wrote
(in ): "A. Filip" wrote in message ... Even in your scenario it makes sense to preserve (small?) holdouts for faster/easier restart after a few years. That "restart" will probably be in the form of charter cruises for the nouveau riche, interracial couples, queers, vegans, eco-kooks, and animal-rights wackos... In which case, let's hope they run into a cat 5 hurricane. |
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Cruise ship industry floundering, ships being sold for recycling
"Keema's Nan" wrote in message
news.com... On 13 Oct 2020, Busta Capp wrote (in ): That "restart" will probably be in the form of charter cruises for the nouveau riche, interracial couples, queers, vegans, eco-kooks, and animal-rights wackos... In which case, let's hope they run into a cat 5 hurricane. The snobs deserve it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgKLrUP-IyU |
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