PortandTerminal.com, July 26, 2020 HAMBURG, GERMANY – Despite the cruise industry being close to collapse, cruise ships are still being built – construction projects that began before the pandemic are still at various stages of completion. Last Friday, a new cruise ship called Spirit of Adventure was floated out of the construction hall at the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany. The …
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The shipyard that built the Titanic just went bust
Reuters, August 5, 2019 By Ian Graham BELFAST, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Harland and Wolff, the Belfast shipyard that built the Titanic, was put into administration on Monday after its bankrupt Norwegian owner failed to find a buyer and calls for its nationalization were rebuffed. The shipyard, whose towering yellow cranes dominate the Northern Irish city’s skyline, has been occupied by …
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