Cruise Ship Scrapping Process with Peter Knego | CRR 059

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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Over a dozen cruise ships have been sold off throughout the cruise industry shutdown, with more likely to come. But what happens to cruise ships once they are sold? What do they do with the equipment? How long does the deconstruction process take? Maritime historian and journalist Peter Knego drops in to answer our questions.

Peter also shares details about his collection of relics he's salvaged from the doomed ocean liners and some of his thoughts on modern-day cruising.

Last Look: Carnival Fantasy Remembered: https://cruiseradio.net/last-look-remembering-carnival-fantasy/

MidShipCentury.com: https://www.midshipcentury.com/

The Sands of Alang documentary: https://www.midshipcentury.com/the-sands-of-alang

Date: August 2, 2020

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0:00.0	You are listening to this is Cruise Radio Rewind. Real reviews from real cruisers.
0:08.2	How's it going? My name is Doug Parker. Thank you for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio
0:12.1	Rewind. Coming up today, we have Maritime historian and journalist back with us again. Peter
0:18.0	Kinego. He was on a few months ago talking about the ship's scrapping
0:22.2	process and what do you know? It's a reality now. Carnival ships there, former Royal Caribbean
0:27.9	ships. So I wanted Peter to kind of walk us through what exactly happens. Once a ship leaves the fleet,
0:34.4	goes to the scrapyard and obviously gets decimated by plasma torches and
0:39.1	steel saws. So Peter Kenego joins us on the line right now to walk us through the process,
0:44.0	and we'll probably talk a couple of other things. Welcome back to the show, Peter. Thank you,
0:47.9	Doug. It's always nice to be here with you. Peter, what a weird time to be covering the cruise industry,
0:53.4	huh? Yeah, this is, there's nothing like these times, Doug.
0:57.3	We've gone through Achilles, Laro hijackings and crashes of the economy.
1:05.2	There have been soulless rules that have endangered classic ships, you know, from time to time.
1:11.6	But this is like the perfect storm of events with COVID, destroying the economy to the point
1:18.1	where people can't go cruising even if they felt safe and the cruise lines being forced to shut
1:23.5	down.
1:24.3	We haven't seen anything this bad and this is actually probably worse than the fuel
1:29.5	crisis in the early to mid-70s when a lot of viable ships were being sent off to the scrapyard,
1:36.2	dozens and dozens of ships at a time were going to Taiwan to be scrapped, and some were only
1:42.0	as new as 12 years old, and others were in perfect condition.
1:46.8	It was just that there was no market for them and the cruise lines and steamship companies
1:52.2	because at that time there were still steamship lines couldn't afford to operate the ships.
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