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Five ships of MSC Cruises to Genoa in the weekend
This morning "Lyric MSC" has arrived; tomorrow it will be continuation from "MSC Fantasy" and "MSC Orchestra" and Sunday from "Splendid MSC" and "MSC Melody"
October 14, 2011
This weekend very five ships of company MSC Cruises will be to the mooring to the docks of the Marine Station of the port of Genoa and will carry in the capital of Liguria beyond 20.000 crocieristi. This morning already the Lyric MSC has arrived; tomorrow it will be continuation from ships MSC Fantasy and MSC Orchestra and Sunday from the Splendid MSC and the MSC Melody.
Draft of a still greater handling regarding the last feat 16th April of MSC Cruises in its home port when in a single day to Genoa they berthed three ships (MSC at the same time Fantasy, MSC Poetry and MSC Melody) carrying 14,000 passengers.
"To place five ships in single a weekend in our home port - Luca Valentini has commented, area manager Italy Nord the West of MSC Cruises - it is sure the better way in order to 24th September celebrate the new dock of inaugurated Bridge of the Thousands ( on September 26, 2011, ndr). The structure will allow to still more offer to our passengers an elevated service us in quantitative and qualitative terms. We are pleased - it has added - to grow together with the port of Genoa, than for us it remains an irreplaceable port of call not only for the ability and the receptive quality, but also for the tie more and more tightened between the company and the territory".
Between the five ships that in the weekend will be to Genoa, Lyric MSC will sail this very day from the capital of Liguria in order to at a time begin its adventure of the Arabic Emirates that constitutes one of the main innovations in the program autumn-winter 2011 of the company. Before to reach the Persian Gulf the ship will call in Greece, Jordan, Oman with final stages to Dubay and Abu Dhabi, in whose port will finish the cruise. Own by Abu Dhabi from October to March 2012 cruises will leave weeklies magazine between Emirates Arabi and Oman.
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