[mtbopfuyn]

First it was US ports and now it’s England’s QE2. Speaking from under my foil hat, but Dubai certainly is sticking it’s nose into Western shipping interests lately.

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

Dubai certainly is of interest.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Get on Google earth and look up Dubai. That is one wealthy country to be building the “palm tree islands”, not to mention the islands that look like the globe. It’s insane what they are doing over there.

[GreenLanternCorps]

She won't be a "ship" much longer, like her predecessor RMS Queen Mary, she will be permenantly docked. It is a much better fate that which befell RMS Queen Elizabeth which was being refitted for crusing as Seawise University and burned and sank in Hong Kong harbor. Or indeed SS United States which is mothballed in Philadelphia.

Besides, there is very little US or British flagged shipping anymore. However the "fleets" of Panama, Liberia, and The Bahamas are huge.

[the scotsman]

‘England’s QE2’?...

The QE2 was built on the Clyde shipyards of Glasgow,Scotland.