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Aliaga, Turkey – Business is booming at sea docks in western Turkey, where five Hulking cruise ships are being unloaded for scrap metal sales due to the Covid-19 epidemic, but the industry has been destroyed, said the head of the ship recycling group. Said. .
Cruise ships were home to some of the earliest clusters of COVID-19 as an epidemic spread globally earlier this year.
In March, U.S. authorities issued a no-sale order for all ships stationed on the cruise ship.
On Friday, dozens of workers looted walls, windows, floors and railings from several vessels in the dock at Aliyaga, 45 km north of Izmir on Turkey’s west coast. Three more ships are set to join the already disbanded ones.
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Prior to the epidemic, Turkish shipbreaking yards normally operated cargo and container vessels, Kamil Onal, chairman of the Recycling Ships of the Association of Businessmen, told Reuters.
“But after the epidemic, cruise ships changed the route to Aliaga very significantly,” he said of the city. “The crisis has led to growth in the sector. When the ships could not find work, they turned to destruction. “
Al Nale said about 2,500 people worked in teams in the yard that took about six months to unload the entire passenger ship. The ships came from Britain, Italy and the United States.
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He said the shipyard aims to increase the volume of dismantled steel to 1.1 million tonnes by the end of the year, from 700,000 tonnes in January, he said.
“We’re trying to turn the crisis into an opportunity,” he said.
He added that even the non-metal fittings of the ships are not wasted as hotel managers have come to the yard to buy useful materials.
