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Cruises are overrated anyways. But these are basically floating Petri dishes.
And yet, somehow, millions of people take cruises every year without getting sick.
I'm greatly saddened by seeing those beautiful ships sent off to the breakers. And yet, in a way, this may actually be a blessing in disguise. Cruise lines have been expanding their fleets at a prodigious pace, betting that demand would continue to increase. But eventually, the market will mature, and growth will level off. When that happens, I was afraid that the cruise lines would be saddled with too much capacity (i.e. too many ships) chasing after a no-longer-growing market. It seems that the coronavirus has basically forced their hand, and hopefully a more realistic fleet management paradigm will be the result.
It seems like a pretty incomplete article. It states that decommissioned ships from Britain, Italy, and the U.S. arrived for dismantling (three more ships set to join five). It doesn't give the timeline as to when the other five arrived and it doesn't state exactly why the ships were decommissioned and assumes it was due to the ships not finding work. Shotty journalism.
Odd, but I am way past over it. I did a lot of cruises on ships painted Haze grey. LOL
I've never sailed on your cruise line, other than to visit a few of its ships at port. But I would imagine that the level of passenger pampering is much greater on Royal Caribbean, et al, than it is on the Great Grey Fleet.
And yet, somehow, millions of people take cruises every year without getting sick.
I'm greatly saddened by seeing those beautiful ships sent off to the breakers. And yet, in a way, this may actually be a blessing in disguise. Cruise lines have been expanding their fleets at a prodigious pace, betting that demand would continue to increase. But eventually, the market will mature, and growth will level off. When that happens, I was afraid that the cruise lines would be saddled with too much capacity (i.e. too many ships) chasing after a no-longer-growing market. It seems that the coronavirus has basically forced their hand, and hopefully a more realistic fleet management paradigm will be the result.
most of the ones that are being scrapped are very old models.
I imagine the much bigger new cruise ships are driving the smaller, older ones out.
THIS!!!!
more expensive to refurbish and update then to scrap.
Unless stats are given on how old the ships are, how long ships are kept running, blah blah -- pffft.
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