Just learned poor ol' Norway arrived Port Klang yesterday at noon. I suspect the end is near. Very near. Oh, to see those big beautiful steam turbines and boilers going to razor blades and toasters is painful. Mark D.

Did NCL remove any historic pieces from the ineterior before the ship left Germany?Wesley

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I'm afraid to ask, but what is Port Klang?Joshua

Does sound a bit forbidding, doesn't it? Like a city where they manufacture cymbals.Port Klang is a destination for older ships in Malaysia. A great deal of ship breaking goes in Malaysia, India, Pakistan, and similar areas around the Indian Ocean. This is because people living in these regions are not susceptible to cancer and injuries sustained by contact with hazardous materials and chemicals, or falling steel plates and explosions. Must be genetic, but who can tell? Similarly, pollutants distributed into the sea in these locations are rendered harmless. I can't explain it.I found a photo online of the Italian Lines "Michaelangelo" being broken up in such a place. OSHA would be horrified.

Here's the link to where I got the info. I was off a day. It was Wednesday. http://www.maritimematters.com/shipnews.htmlThere will likely be more news when they start cutting it up. No info. on how much was removed earlier, but some items probably were. When sold to scrappers, the ships usually still contain most of their fittings and equipment. It's part of the deal.Mark D.

You did not mention the biggest reason it pays to tow ships from all over tocut them up in India and that region.You are paying th worlds lowest labor rates! No OSHA rules etc is true but basic need for steel and low labor are a scrap dealers dream come true!I was in a now long gone scrap yard once that was breaking small World War II ships like destroyers escorts. It was aa scarey place let me tell you!Ted Miles

Here was the bad news/good news story I was thinking of. At least someone had the ambition to travel over there and save what they could. Do yourself a favor and read the whole story. It is heartwrenching and heartwarming at the same timehttp://www.maritimematters.com/mall_alang_pk.html

Alang- I remember it now- National Geographic or TLC had an episode on it, if the ships operate they pilot them at full speed on to the beach and scrap them by hand, very few cranes if I remember correctly. Horrible and sad and yet fascinating place indeed.Joshua