Cruise ships are stripped for scrap as market collapses in coronavirus pandemic

The coronavirus cruise liner graveyard at the port in Aliaga, a town 30 miles north of Izmir on Turkey’s west coast, bustled with work again on Friday as workers stripped walls, windows and railings from five vessels. US and the UK сruise ships were home to the some of the earliest clusters of COVID-19 as the pandemic spread globally early this year.