Dhe Global One has turn into a logo for a lot of issues in latest months. The brightly painted, 342-meter-long ship, which is sort of utterly completed within the dock on the Wismar shipyard, symbolized the imbalance within the cruise business. The truth that no journeys might be organized for a very long time as a result of Corona was additionally the rationale why MV shipyards needed to file for chapter in January. However there was nice hope that the scenario would ease as soon as the pandemic subsided and {that a} purchaser can be discovered for Global One. Initially, there have been quite a few inquiries. The only critical prospect has now jumped off.
“It is a main setback,” admits insolvency administrator Christoph Morgen, who got here to a rapidly convened employees assembly on Monday morning after it turned clear over the weekend. For the 1,500 workers who’re at present being paid by a switch firm, a hope is shattered. The completed constructing of the Global One was at all times known as a “bridge” till buyers had been discovered for the precise shipyard in Wismar and in neighboring Rostock-Warnemünde and so they may additionally get began.
