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Business is booming at a sea dock in western Turkey, where five hulking cruise ships are being dismantled for scrap metal sales after the Covid-19 pandemic all but destroyed the industry. Cruise ships were home to some of the earliest clusters of Covid-19 as the pandemic spread globally early this year.
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Dozens of workers stripped walls, windows, floors, and railings from several vessels in the dock in Aliaga, a town 45km north of Izmir on Turkey’s west coast. Three more ships are set to join those already being dismantled.
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Two thousand five hundred people worked at the yard in teams that took around six months to dismantle an entire passenger ship. The vessels arrived from Britain, Italy, and the United States.
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Even the ships’ non-metal fittings do not waste as hotel operators have come to the yard to buy valuable materials.
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