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In the first nine months of the 2011 fleet of Corsica Sardinia Ferries it has transported 3.158.631 passengers (- 6.2%)
In september a radical change of direction is recorded
October 3, 2011
In the first nine months of the 2011 fleet of ferries of the company Corsica Sardinia Ferries it has transported altogether 3.158.631 people, with a decrease of 6.2% regarding the correspondent period last year. The passengers transported from the services for the Corsica have been 2.441.886 (- 3.4%) and those transported from the services for Sardinia 716,745 (- 14.8%).
In the solo third trimester of this year the fleet has transported 2.510.336 passengers, with a decrease of 4.7% on the period July-september of 2010, of which 1.901.485 passengers for Corsica (- 2.4%) and 608,851 passengers for the Sardinia (- 11.4%).
"The results of the first nine months of the year - the managing director of Corsica Sardinia Ferries has commented, Euan Lonmon - have suffered of the general crisis of tourism towards the islands, also as a result of the generalized increase of the prices of the tourist services and the transport".
The company has announced to have last September recorded a radical change of direction (+4.34% on september 2010). Moreover the managing director of Corsica Sardinia Ferries has emphasized that on the decrease of the traffic in peak season for the Sardinia "that - it has specified - has been particularly marked on the line Civitavecchia/Golfo Aranci, has influenced the income of a new competitor, the company of ferries supported from the Sardinia Region, Saremar".
"Corsica Sardinia Ferries - it has announced Euan Lonmon - intends to continue the business policy of tariff diversification that holds account of the economic truth of reference and intends to give new overhong to tourism towards the islands, all the year. Our business strategies - it has explained - are concentrated in the promotion of tourism low season, with offers distributed in the arc of the twelve months and with new initiatives, as the proposals dedicated to the schools, in order to promote the respect for the atmosphere".
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In the first nine months of the 2011 fleet of ferries of the company Corsica Sardinia Ferries it has transported altogether 3.158.631 people, with a decrease of 6.2% regarding the correspondent period last year. The passengers transported from the services for the Corsica have been 2.441.886 (- 3.4%) and those transported from the services for Sardinia 716,745 (- 14.8%).
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
