‘The first task in the dismantling operation will be repairing holes made in three areas of the Megafloat's bottom when it ran aground,’ the ship-breaker said.
It was towed up the River Thames from Sheerness in Kent to a ship-breaker's yard in Rotherhithe, South London.
The shipping company bringing the liner to India will bear the brunt, as it's only after ships are brought to the breaking yard that the ship-breaker pays up.
The ship-breaker tries to get the best possible return on the investment by breaking the ship as efficiently as possible.
Neither does it have a complete inventory of toxic wastes, although the ship-breaker admits that the ship contains both asbestos and polychlorinated biphenyls, a neurotoxin.