{"id":1629833,"date":"2022-09-01T14:33:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T18:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1629833"},"modified":"2022-09-01T14:35:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T18:35:39","slug":"see-it-biggest-cruise-ship-ever-built-could-be-scuttled-before-it-ever-sails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/see-it-biggest-cruise-ship-ever-built-could-be-scuttled-before-it-ever-sails\/","title":{"rendered":"SEE IT: Biggest Cruise Ship Ever Built Could Be Scuttled Before It Ever Sails"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsee-it-biggest-cruise-ship-ever-built-could-be-scuttled-before-it-ever-sails%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1629833&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The biggest cruise ship ever built could be scuttled before its maiden voyage after its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/germany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">German<\/a> builder went kaput.<\/p>\n<p>Global Dream II, a 1,122-foot vessel that features an outdoor waterpark and a cinema and was designed to carry up to 9,000 passengers, cost $1.8 billion to build. But now it could be sold for scrap after Christoph Morgen, a trustee for its now-bankrupt German builder, MV Werften, failed to find a buyer for the nearly-finished luxury liner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFaced with the tight deadline to get the Global Dream out of its building dock by the end of 2023, recycling the ship in Turkey is a last resort that Morgen hopes to avoid,\u201d wrote industry analyst <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradewindsnews.com\/cruise-and-ferry\/genting-s-unfinished-cruise-behemoth-could-sell-for-1bn-but-who-would-want-to-buy-it-\/2-1-1274003\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TradeWinds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-432025\" class=\"wp-image-432025 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-1238222704-864x576.jpg\" alt=\"The Global Dream III would be the biggest cruise ship ever built, but it may never sail.\" width=\"864\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-1238222704-864x576-1.jpg 864w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-1238222704-300x200-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-1238222704-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-1238222704-1536x1024-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-1238222704-2048x1365-1.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-1238222704-1800x1200-1.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-1238222704-1200x800-1.jpg 1200w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-432025\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Global Dream III would be the biggest cruise ship ever built, but it may never sail. (GREGOR FISCHER\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>MV Werften was nearly done building the 20-deck megaliner when it went bankrupt in January. Morgen, who is winding down the assets of the shipbuilder, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-02-18\/genting-s-mega-ship-needs-buyer-by-summer-before-cash-runs-out\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bloomberg News<\/a> in February that he had three potential buyers for the ship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will have a speedy process, but there\u2019s no need for a fire sale,\u201d Morgen said at the time. \u201cOur target is to get the highest price.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-432034\" class=\"wp-image-432034 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-1238180475-866x576.jpg\" alt=\"The 342m long and almost finished cruise ship Global Dream is pictured in the main assembly hall of the shipbuilder MV Werften in Wismar, on Januar 26, 2022. - One of the world&#039;s largest cruise ships sits, unfinished, in a wind-swept dock in Wismar on Germany&#039;s Baltic coast after the its makers filed for bankruptcy in January.\" width=\"866\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-1238180475-866x576-1.jpg 866w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-1238180475-300x200-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-1238180475-768x511-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-1238180475-1536x1022-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-1238180475-2048x1363-1.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-1238180475-1800x1200-1.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-1238180475-1200x800-1.jpg 1200w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-432034\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The trustee appointed charged with winding down the shipbuilder\u2019s assets has been unable to find a buyer, and the shipyard must be cleared to make way for the German Navy. (Mario Tama\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>The German government offered loans to try to help MV Werften stay afloat, but the company was apparently done in by the COVID pandemic, which clobbered the cruise industry. German Economy Minister Robert Habeck told Bloomberg News the government was willing to subsidize the small amount of finishing work in passenger facilities that was left to be done on the ship in order to make it more attractive for a sale.<\/p>\n<p>But all potential deals have apparently fallen through, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11167999\/Worlds-biggest-cruise-ship-costing-1-2BILLION-sold-scrap-set-sail.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Mail<\/a>. Now it has to be moved out of the defunct company\u2019s shipyard in Wismar, which is being turned into a Navy yard.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest cruise ship currently operating is the Oasis-class Wonder of the Seas, which is owned by Royal Caribbean and has a passenger capacity of 6,988, according to the Mail.<\/p>\n<p>MV Werften is owned by Genting, a Malaysian company controlled by billionaire\u00a0Tan Sri Lim Kok Thay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest cruise ship ever built could be scuttled before its maiden voyage after its German builder went kaput. Global Dream II, a 1,122-foot vessel that features an outdoor waterpark and a cinema and was designed to carry up to 9,000 passengers, cost $1.8 billion to build. 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