Australia’s Most Pugnacious Billionaire Says He’s Building a Titanic Replica

Eleven years ago, Australian mining billionaire Clive Palmer traveled to New York and unveiled his legacy project: a full-scale replica of the Titanic that he pledged would sail from Shanghai to Southampton by the end of 2016.

“It’s going ahead, no doubt about that,” Palmer insisted. “Most things that I say I do, I do.”

In this case, not so much. The project was sidelined in 2015 due to reported financial issues; in 2018, Palmer revived the project, but the second attempt fizzled out, too.

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