Owner denies world’s oldest cruise ship, Astoria, has been sold for recycling
The owner of the world’s oldest oceangoing cruise ship denies that it is ending a 75-year career.
A spokesman for Puerto Rico-based The Roundtable LLC claims that reports by brokers this week that the 16,144-gt Astoria (built 1948) has been sold for recycling at a European Union-approved are incorrect.
This denial comes despite S&P Global’s International Ships Register recently changed the ship’s status to “to be broken up”.
