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Cruiise ship ends role as floating accomodation for asylum seekers

The 'Ocean Majesty' is set to leave from its berth in Velsen after three years housing asylum seekers. The ship is scheduled to depart the port near Amsterdam in early August 2025. The vessel has been serving as a floating hotel as part of a charter contract with local government entities. The deal was set to end soon as the 'Ocean Majesty' was deemed too expensive for the operation and also considered too large for the job. It currently houses only 300 asylum seekers. The local government is now looking for a smaller and cheaper replacement, having held two tenders to locate interested shipowners. The 'Ocean Majesty' was disqualified because of the cost to charter the ship.

Cruise ship to become asylum accomodation in Amsterdam

The "Ocean Majesty" is to be converted into a refugee home. The contracts of the 220 crew members from the charterer "Hansa Touristik" have already been terminated. The ship will then serve as asylum accommodation in Amsterdam, where it could bring in more money for the operator. Most recently, the "Ocean Majesty" was on a 21-day cruise to Greenland before returning to Hamburg on Aug 7, 2023. The 'Ocean Majesty' was detained in June 2022 due to serious safety deficiencies by the Swedish authorities. The current cruise had to be canceled at that time. The problems were presumably related to the long layup period from March 2020 to April 2022.

Cruise ship under suspicion of sea pollution

An investigation was launched by the Maritime Prefect of the Atlantic against the 'Ocean Majesty', which was suspected of having emptied its garbage cans off the coast of Glenan. he pollution concerned plastic debris, oil cans, and various wastes that were been found by fishermen and pleasure boat owners in the Glenan Islands. The vessel was inspected while it was mooredin the port of Lorient on May 13, 2022. The inspection yielded nothing, and the vessel was then allowed to continue its voyage to the port of Saint-Nazaire. TThe investigation continued, and the waste that was still collected, was thoroughly examined.