Consisting crocieristico traffic in the weekend in the port of Trieste



Last weekend the port of Trieste has recorded a consisting inflow of crocieristi being climbed in less than 24 hours, between the late afternoon of saturday and the morning of Sunday, from four great fleeting ships on the run from the port of Venice which blocked from the fog.

Saturdays are berthed to the docks of the giuliano port of call Costa Vittoria di Costa Crociere and the MSC Magnifica flagship of Msc cruises. Altogether these two unit have moved on Trieste a traffic of beyond 8.000 passengers. In the late evening of saturday a third ship from cruises has arrived, the Queen Victoria of the Cunard, continuation Sunday morning from Costa Favolosa di Costa Crociere. In total between it disembarks and it embarks have entered in the city, through its door on the sea, beyond 16.000 passengers.

The Harbour Authority of Trieste has explained that the first signalling of the diversion of the ships from Venice to Trieste had reached the single agency saturday at 10 a.m., with official confirmation to the 17 almost close of the income in the Gulf of before the four flagships. Mobilizing all the reperibile staff and using every I approach available, the president of the Harbour Authority, Marina Monassi, has given to green disc to the Trieste Passenger terminal (TTP) that - as emphasized from the general manager of the terminalista society, Livio Ungaro - it has allowed with Trieste to assume the home role port in the Adriatic and to supply all the necessary services for the disembarkation and boarding of a real crowd of passengers. Essential thing - it has evidenced the TTP - also the contribution of the police that has collaborated in any way to face the operating emergency.

The giuliano harbour agency has specified that it has been be a matter of an extraordinary organization that, on one side, has represented an exceptional testing ground for the port of Trieste, from the other has demonstrated that the port of call can to full authority aim at to a role of first floor in the market of the cruises in the Mediterranean.

"It is the confirmation - Marina Monassi has declared - of the validity of the investment choices that we have completed in order to strengthen the fleeting docks and in order to place Trieste in a position in the market of the vacations on the sea that would have had to be its from years and that it is today more than ever to its capacity". "It is also the confirmation - he has added Franco Gerini, president of the Trieste Terminal Passeggeri - than we support from years: that Trieste will be the first port to benefit of the destagionalizzazione of the crocieristico market and the progressive east opening of these produced vacations, characterized, only case in the world-wide panorama, from constant rates of growth".