Superstar Cruises’ former ship Superstar Zenith has arrived off the coast of Alang, India, to be scrapped and recycled.
Superstar Zenith Via the Years
In 1992, the ship was one of many first new builds for Superstar Cruises, following Horizon‘s launch in 1990. The ship spent its practically 30-year life cruising everywhere in the world.
Superstar Zenith spent the season crusing from New York Metropolis to Bermuda within the early 2000s. In 2003, the vessel began cruising from the JAXPORT Cruise Terminal in Jacksonville, Florida.
Superstar Zenith would grow to be the primary giant cruise ship to homeport in Jacksonville, opening northeastern Florida to the world of cruising. It sailed from the First Coast from 2003 to 2005. The slot was ultimately taken by Carnival Cruise Line after Superstar left Jacksonville.
Superstar Zenith was transferred over to sister firm Pullmantur Cruises in 2007, the place she would stay for 12 extra years. In July 2019, it was introduced that Peace Boat would take over the ship.
Little did anybody know that simply months after the announcement, Pullmantur Cruises would endure extreme monetary points, ultimately placing all its ships in a chilly layup standing (tied up on the pier with no crew on board) earlier than asserting insolvency in June 2020.
The longer term wouldn’t be too vibrant underneath its new residence with Peace Boat, both. The ship was laid up in Greece all through the shutdown and would by no means enter service with Peace Boat. The group purchased a bigger vessel, Solar Princess, to take the place of Zenith and Ocean Dream (the previous Carnival Tropicale, which was additionally scrapped).
Zenith arrived on the shipbreaking yard in India underneath its last identify Tsm Singapore on Friday, the place it’s getting ready to be beached and dismantled.
Zenith is simply one of many dozens of cruise ships that have been scrapped all through the cruise business shutdown. Carnival Company (CCL) alone exited over 20 of their older cruise ships between a number of manufacturers, most of which noticed the identical destiny.
