A last-minute attempt to save the classic 1969-built cruise ship Maxim Gorkiy from the shipbreakers torches has failed and the steam-turbine powered vessel was arrived at Alang to end her days.
A last-ditch bid to turn the ship into a floating hotel in Hamburg failed, following the decision by Wayne Heller to delay the re-launch of Orient Lines because of the global economic crisis. Maxim Gorkiy was to become Orient Lines Marco Polo 2.
Maxim Gorkiy has operated for a number of years on charter to Germany’s Phoenix Reisen. She was sold by her owners, Russia’s Sovcomflot, for scrap for a price in the region of € 4.2m.
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