World’s Largest Cruise Ship to Be Scrapped Before First Voyage

[LazyLion]

The ship that would have become the world’s largest cruise liner has been scrapped before it ever had the chance to take its maiden voyage.

If wasting wild amounts of resources and money is your type of thing, this is the story for you.

Global Dream II was slated to carry 9,000 passengers and was built by German-Hong Kong shipbuilding firm MV Werften to the tune of nearly $US1.4 ($2) billion, according to the Daily Mail. It was nearly finished when the company went bankrupt at the start of this year.

World's Largest Cruise Ship to Be Scrapped Before First Voyage

It may have cost around $2 billion to build, but the Global Dream II is destined to be trash.

www.gizmodo.com.au

 

[ForceFate]

World's Largest Cruise Ship to Be Scrapped Before First Voyage

It may have cost around $2 billion to build, but the Global Dream II is destined to be trash.

www.gizmodo.com.au

Musk is into frivolous spending. Maybe he must bid for the ship and turn it into something. I don't know what yet.

 

[ScottulusMaximus]

Good.

Cruise ships are an environmental catastrophe.

 

[ImagineFZS]

Good.

Cruise ships are an environmental catastrophe.

What about other ships?

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

Musk is into frivolous spending. Maybe he must bid for the ship and turn it into something. I don't know what yet.

a mobile launch platform for his Rockets, now thats something useful.
could park it next to the equator, making getting to orbit easier.

 

[ScottulusMaximus]

What about other ships?

Other ships don't move several thousand people around using several thousand litres of diesel and dumping several thousand litres of sewage over several thousand kilometers of shoreline.

For no apparent reason.

 

[ForceFate]

a mobile launch platform for his Rockets, now thats something useful.
could park it next to the equator, making getting to orbit easier.

I don't think it can support the weight.

 

[gregmcc]

people are an environmental catastrophe.

FTFY

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

I don't think it can support the weight.

so the weight of some Rocket is More than several hundred people, Staff, Food, Diesel, Sewerage, Beds and Pools?
essentially a Small city weighs less than a Rocket?

Hard to believe, but with some clever engineering, like maybe lowering supports into the ocean floor, maybe it is possible.
I mean Oil rigs do it.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

surprised Zuma didnt buy it and rename it Nkandla 2....
or is Zuma afraid of the Ocean

 

[TelkomUseless]

Is that why we had supply issues the last few years ? Lot metals etc than can be sold.

 

[theratman]

What about other ships?

Back to the age of sail ekse!

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

Is that why we had supply issues the last few years ? Lot metals etc than can be sold.

with the amount of corruption in the shipbuilding industry, wouldn't be surprised.
everything happens for a reason after all.

 

[Grubscrew]

Other ships don't move several thousand people around using several thousand litres of diesel and dumping several thousand litres of sewage over several thousand kilometers of shoreline.

For no apparent reason.

The sex, the booze and copious amounts of over salted food. No apparent reason?

 

[ScottulusMaximus]

The sex, the booze and copious amounts of over salted food. No apparent reason?

Not diminishing but all could all be done in a building, otherwise known as a hotel.

 

[ShaunSA]

Not diminishing but all could all be done in a building, otherwise known as a hotel.

And all your client's don't really need schit shipped here from abroad if you really want to go down that road

 

[Dan C]

Other ships don't move several thousand people around using several thousand litres of diesel and dumping several thousand litres of sewage over several thousand kilometers of shoreline.

For no apparent reason.

We need ships. How else are we going to discover new continents ?

 

[RedViking]

Maybe Tom Cruise can buy it. Or the Church of Scientology for their Freewind cruises.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

Maybe Tom Cruise can buy it. Or the Church of Scientology for their Freewind cruises.

aka the floating gulag,

 

[G'Wobblez]

Other ships don't move several thousand people around using several thousand litres of diesel and dumping several thousand litres of sewage over several thousand kilometers of shoreline.

For no apparent reason.

sounds like kzn..