Lower hull of Global Dream II to be disposed of after shipbuilder filed for bankruptcy
What was meant to be one of the world’s largest cruise ships is being prepared for its maiden voyage – to a scrapyard., which was designed to hold more than 9,000 passengers, had almost been completed at a shipyard on Germany’s Baltic coast. However, the shipbuilder MV Werften filed for bankruptcy in January 2022 and the administrators cannot find a buyer for Global Dream II.that the lower hull of the liner is to be disposed for scrap price.
The administrator Christoph Morgen reportedly told a press conference on Friday that the ship needed to be moved out of MV Werften’s Wismar shipyard by the end of the year because the yard had been sold to Thyssenkrupp’s naval unit, which plans to build military vessels there.Sign up to the daily Business Today email or follow Guardian Business on Twitter at @BusinessDesk
Global Dream II and its sister ship Global Dream – which is not being scrapped for now – would have been the world’s largest cruise ships by passenger capacity when complete. At 208,000 tons they would have been jointly the sixth largest cruise ships by size, just behind Royal Caribbean’s five Oasis-class ships.
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