Numlock News: December 5, 2019 • Songbirds, Cruise ships, Trashcans
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By Walt Hickey Ships Cruiseliner companies are lining up to chop their ships in half. The process is called “stretching,” and it’s when you take a cruise ship that’s been in service for many years, split it in half, insert a prefabricated midsection and perhaps swap out the engines and then weld it back together. It takes something like $175 million to build a ship that can hold over 300 passengers, but stretching an older one to dial up capacity costs an average of
Numlock News: December 5, 2019 • Songbirds, Cruise ships, Trashcans
Numlock News: December 5, 2019 • Songbirds…
Numlock News: December 5, 2019 • Songbirds, Cruise ships, Trashcans
By Walt Hickey Ships Cruiseliner companies are lining up to chop their ships in half. The process is called “stretching,” and it’s when you take a cruise ship that’s been in service for many years, split it in half, insert a prefabricated midsection and perhaps swap out the engines and then weld it back together. It takes something like $175 million to build a ship that can hold over 300 passengers, but stretching an older one to dial up capacity costs an average of