Cruise Ship Dismantling

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

Cruise ship dismantling. On top of the devastation of death and illness rushing across the globe many industries have been totally disrupted. As one of the ship disposal techniques ship dismantling involves the retired ships to be stripped off their machinery barring the value-adding materials which are rightfully reused for new ships or for other applications. Looking to cut costs as COVID-19 ravaged the cruise industry Carnival Cruise Line sold six ships for scrap.

As we maneuver through 2020 and COVID-19 the entire world has been completely flipped upside down. Ship breaking aka ship demolition is the process of dismantling ships for scrap metal and recycling or disposal. In South-Asia these ships are beached at high tide on the shores of the so-called ship-breaking yards.

The worlds largest cruise company reported a loss of 29 billion in the quarter ending on Aug. SGdP the only ship-dismantling centre in Italy to be approved by the European Commission already has experience recycling a large cruiseship. Pictured above the Pullmantur Sovereign has already had a large section of its hull removed.

Ship dismantling also popularly referred to as ship recycling is a process of breaking down a ship also called ship breaking when it completes its life tenure. Cruise ship dismantling booms in Turkey after pandemic scuttles sector Cruise ships were home to some of the earliest clusters of COVID-19 as the pandemic spread globally early this year. Today the shipbreaking process takes place in a facility called ship-breaking yard while in the past scrapping ships took place in major port cities worldwide and mostly in those of highly industrialized countries UK USA Germany Italy.

Business is booming at a ship-breaking yard in Aliaga Turkey where cruise ships are being dismantled for scrap-metal sales after lockdowns all but destroye. Three of those ships the Inspiration Imagination and Fantasy are being dismantled at the Aliaga Ship Recycling Facility in Turkey alongside two other cruise ships. A drone image shows decommissioned cruise ships being dismantled at Aliaga ship-breaking yard in the Aegean port city of Izmir western Turkey October 2 2020.

Most notably the travel and luxury cruise industries have been. In September 2020 Carnival Corporation announced plans to sell 18 less efficient cruise ships in the coming months resulting in a 12 reduction of its overall fleet. Cruise ship dismantling booms in Turkey after pandemic scuttles sector.