“Titanic comes from a time when the world was different”, his love letter to the past continued. “It will be a ship of peace,’’ he said at the time. Especially given the rather rambling and mildly comical nature of the announcement. At the time of the initial announcement, the billionaire’s escapades were prolific in the Australian national press and no one took the revelation particularly seriously. News of Mr Palmer’s plan to build Titanic II first surfaced back in 2012. “The decision will mean we won’t open our European office until March 2019”, he continued, “with Paris being ideally placed to suit the company’s needs”.
“It is of little use having a European headquarters outside Europe,’’ Mr Palmer said in a statement in Brisbane on Monday. Clive Palmer, the Australian mining tycoon and politician behind the project, has controversially announced that the European headquarters of his Blue Star Line cruise company will be based in Paris as of 2019, rather than London as originally planned – with the blame rested at the feet of Brexit.
The six-year saga of the Titanic II continues.
