The administrator of MV Werften — once Genting Hong Kong’s German shipbuilding arm — estimates that any buyer of the partly completed Global Dream will need to spend €700m ($712m) to complete the mega-size cruise newbuilding.

Christoph Morgen, in an interview with German newspaper Die Welt, said buying and completing the 201,000-gt ship would probably cost a new owner around €1bn ($1.01bn)