 Subsequent conversion plans were announced in 2012 and then again by the "Oceanic Group" in 2013, but both plans stalled.In November 2015, Cruise Arabia & Africa quoted DP World chairman Ahmed Sultan Bin Sulayem as saying that QE2 would not be scrapped and a Dubai-based construction company announced in March 2017 that it had been contracted to refurbish the ship.The restored QE2 opened to visitors on 18 April 2018, with a soft opening.