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New record traffic anniversary cruises in the port of Amburgo
In the 2011 314,500 passengers are enlivened, with an increment of 28% regarding the year precedence
January 10, 2012
In the 2011 port of Amburgo it has established the own new record of crocieristico traffic and for this year a new supremacy is attended. Last year Hamburg Cruise Center (HCC) has enlivened altogether 314,500 crocieristi, with an increment of 28% regarding 246.000 passengers in 2010. In the 2012 the ports of call of 164 ports of call of cruise ships (regarding 118 in 2011) for a total of beyond 400.000 passengers are previewed.
"Crocieristica season 2011 - it has emphasized the managing director of HCC, Stefan Behn - has been that of greater success for Amburgo. Moreover the anseatica city is becoming more and more a destination for the entire year".
Remembering that the passengers who begin or conclude their cruise in the port of Amburgo are pairs to 87.5% of the total, Hamburg Cruise Center have explained that last year is recorded an sensitive change in the origin of the crocieristi: if in 2010 91% of the fleeting ones were of German origin, in the 2011 this percentage it is diminished to 73%.
The councilman of HCC, Gerd Drossel, has remembered moreover that in 2011 to the German port a ship of Costa Crociere is landed for the first time: "Costa Magica - he has specified - has visited altogether eleven times the port of Amburgo and to every port of call has been is a change of passengers who an increment of the transit traffic". In the 2012 the ports of call of ships of the MSC fleet are attended for the first time also Cruises: this year, in fact, Lyric MSC will carry out 25 touched to the German port.
"A volume of 500.000 passengers for season 2015 - it has concluded Drossel - is realistic".
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In the 2011 port of Amburgo it has established the own new record of crocieristico traffic and for this year a new supremacy is attended. Last year Hamburg Cruise Center (HCC) has enlivened altogether 314,500 crocieristi, with an increment of 28% regarding 246.000 passengers in 2010. In the 2012 the ports of call of 164 ports of call of cruise ships (regarding 118 in 2011) for a total of beyond 400.000 passengers are previewed.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
