This year MSC Cruises will carry out 26 ports of call to Salerno enlivening 60,000 passengers



In 2011 company MSC Cruises confirmation own landings place to the port of Salerno where the Lyric MSC will place that they give on 25 April on 10 October next will carry out routes weeklies magazine in the western Mediterranean. The cruise ship, that it is able to accommodate until 2.200 passengers, will altogether leave every monday from of the Campania port for cruises of eight days and seven nights towards Palm of Majorca, Marseilles, Genoa, Ajaccio and Civitavecchia, carrying out 25 ports of call that will afford to the ship to enliven about 60.000 passengers. Moreover the crocieristica company has planned also a port of call to Salerno of MSC Symphony that is in program for next the 3 june in the course of a cruise towards the Greek islands.

The collaboration between MSC Cruises and the city and the port of Salerno is introduced today near the Hall of the Gonfalone in the Palace of City of Salerno from mayor Vincenzo De Luca, managing director of MSC the Cruises, Domenico Pellegrino, and from the president of the Harbour Authority Andrea Annunziata.

"We are proud - the mayor of Salerno De Luca has declared - of these ulterior investments of MSC Cruises to Salerno. We are pleasing to the company that it has chosen to aim at the city being given confidence to our programs of town-planning and environmental requalification; we consider landings place MSC Cruises strategic an advertising window for the attraction of the fallen back city with beneficial on the local economy. In the next few months they will be completed the Marine Station signed by Zaha Hadid and the square of the Freedom of Ricardo Bofill that belongs to a Front of only Sea in Italy; seven kilometers of tourist ports, comprised Marina d' Arechi di Santiago Calatrava, spiagge, marine parks, hotels, structures for shipbuilding free time and the naval one. Travellers MSC will remain bewitched from these wonders".

"We have believed in the city of Salerno - it has remembered the manager of the Travelling company - since 1996 when we included of the Campania port of call during a series of cruises in the Mediterranean Oriental. From then our engagement it has grown and it is by now from four years that MSC Cruises inserts in the programming a cyclical route on Salerno, along all the season. Thanks to this every week thousands of coming crocieristi give beyond 90 various nations have reached Salerno on board of our ships, generating important economic effects on the territory and stimulating other companies in imitating to us". "We are however - it has added - the only company that allows with the Salerno provinces to begin and to finish a vacation of great quality, practically "from house". It is our intention to continue to operate from Salerno also in 2012. In such case, in fact, we preview 26 ports of call every Sunday with the ship sister MSC Symphony".

The president of the Announced harbour agency has rimarcato "the engagement in order to create more and more suitable conditions of acceptance to the increasing requirements of crocieristico tourism. In particular - it has specified - of understanding with the Municipality of Salerno and the other local and national agencies of government, they are in phase of planning and realization the participations of potenziamento of the docks, dredging of the backdrops, optimization of mobility in income and expenditure from the port of call while the port of Salerno has already received numerous international certificates of quality for its operating abilities and the safety procedures".