The crocieristico group Carnival signs an agreement in order to invest 150 million dollars in harbour infrastructures of Mexico



The crocieristico group American Carnival Corporation & plc has undersigned an agreement with which it is engaged to invest 150 million dollars in harbour infrastructures of the coast of the Pacific and the Caribbean coast of Mexico. The understanding has been undersigned slid Wednesday to Puerto Maya, Cozumel, the presence of the president of Mexico Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, from the mexican minister of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzo, and from the president and managing director of Carnival Cruise Lines, Gerald R. Cahill.

In the course of the ceremony Calderón Hinojosa it has emphasized that tourism is an important source of resources that is translate in new places of work for the Mexicans and has explained that, for this reason, the federal government has the intention of more make of Mexico the fifth tourist destination visited the world.

The mexican president has remembered that Carnival Corporation is the more crocieristico large group to the world, than in Mexico manages 80% of the activity of the cruises, and that he possesses ten between the greatest crocieristiche companies of the world: Carnival Cruise Lines, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line, Seabourn, Cunard, Aida, Costa Crociere, Ibero Cruises, P&O Cruises and P&O Cruises Australia. This group - it has evidenced - represents 56% of international the crocieristico field and with a fleet of 101 cruise ships it accommodates per year beyond 8,5 million passengers. The Carnival group has more than 90.000 dependent all over the world and invoice annually 15 billion dollars.

The engagement of Carnival to invest in Mexico appears attested renewing of confidence in confronts of the tourist field of the nation after last summer Princess Cruises had cancelled some ports of call to mexican ports to cause - it had explained the company of the Carnival group - of the acts of violence that characterize some areas of the Country and in order to safeguard therefore safety of the passengers and the crews.

Cahill has remembered that the Carnival group has invested in Mexico 100 million dollars and previews to develop to new projects as the construction of a terminal cruises to Calica, in the State of Roo Quintain, and of in the State of the Baja California T S, and that the new ports will allow to increase the income of foreign currency, to generate a greater number of places of work direct and indirect in the tourist section and to increase the arrivals of crocieristi in Mexico.