Workers at the CSC Junling Shipyard in China – where Clive Palmer’s ambitious Titanic II ship is to be constructed – say they are convinced the project will never make it past the concept stage.
Already at least two years behind schedule (CW 15 May 2014), no actual construction work on the $500 million project has begun, with its maiden voyage across the Atlantic originally set for 2016.
“The Australians have used this for propaganda, it will not happen,” one shipyard employee recently told The Australian.
Palmer has been embroiled in a protracted legal dispute with the Chinese shipyard management over funding for some time, with no real progress on the project.
