New Asian operator revives long laid-up cruise veteran for luxury venture. Malaysia’s Berlin Capital Group is giving former German cruise ship a top-to-bottom makeover in China

A long laid-up former German cruise ship that was sold at the height of the pandemic for conversion into a superyacht is set to return to service under a new Malaysian cruise operator.

Berlin Capital Group (BCG) has emerged as the new owner of the 9,600-gt Dream Goddess (built 1980), which departed its lay-up moorings near Piraeus in Greece towards the end of 2024 and sailed to a shipyard in the Chinese port of Ningde.

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