it gets scrapped. That happened to a number of ships during the Covid pandemic, where market conditions slowed the demand for older ships. Now, a Carnival-owned ship has been sold and Cruise News ...

Royal Caribbean’s former Song of America is on her way to the world’s largest shipbreaking yard to be scrapped.

Kamil Önal: Welcome to the Aliaga ship-breaking facility. Narrator: Because of the pandemic, Carnival, Costa, and Pullmantur cruise lines have all sent ships to western Turkey for demolition.

The Carnival Fantasy also has the dubious distinction of being the first Carnival ship to be sold for scrap while still in Carnival service and is now being broken up at Aliaga, Turkey.