For lack of activity, five luxury liners about to be demolished

MSG Grandiosa will depart on August 16 for a new cruise after several months of hiatus.

-

The Covid-19 crisis has dealt a heavy blow to the cruise industry.

Five luxury liners are being dismantled in the Aliaga shipyard in western Turkey, CNN reports, relayed by 

.

It is one of three destinations, along with Alang in India and Gadani in Pakistan, for ships whose owners want to get rid of.

They are boned and their scrap is then sold.

Cruise activity has been stopped in the United States since last March and provisionally reopened in Europe with the application of new regulations.

This situation contrasts with the order books that were filled before the crisis.

So some companies find themselves with many liners at the quayside and decide to scrap some, says

.

The Carnival group, one of the major American players in the sector, will sell 18 ships in the coming months.

30% more activity

On the Aliaga site, we are not idle.

Activity has increased by 30% since the coronavirus health crisis.

"When the ships could not find an occupation, the companies turned to dismantling", explains Kamil Onal, president of an association of industrial ship recycling, to Reuters.

Several tons of additional steel will come out of Aliaga's workshops.

To dismantle these massive ships, it takes about six months.

2,500 workers work on these sites.

World

Coronavirus: A dozen cases on the first cruise ship to return to Greece

World

Coronavirus: Costa Cruises will test each passenger before boarding its ships

• World

• Coronavirus

• Turkey

• Cruises

• Economic crisis

• Liner