Genting Cruise Lines (GCL)’s ­announcement that its pioneer Star Cruises brand is to lose yet ­another ship could be taken as a sign that it is being run down.

But a Genting spokesperson said this week that nothing could be further from the truth.

GCL, the cruise arm of Genting Hong Kong, revealed late last month that it would transfer Star Cruises’ flagship, the 75,300-gt Super­Star Virgo (built 1999), across to its upmarket Dream Cruises brand next March.