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This year 116 ports of call of cruise ships to the ports of Olbia and Porto Torres (+65% are attended)
They are about 250 thousand the previewed crocieristi
March 23, 2012
The Harbour Authority of the Sardinia North has announced that in crocieristica season 2012, that goes from March to the end of November, they are in program 116 ports of call of cruise ships to the ports of Olbia and Porto Torres regarding 71 ports of call in 2011 (in the 2010 have been 93 and 118 in 2008). The companies that this year will carry own ships in the two Sardinian ports are Aida, Azamara, Carnival, Coast, Ibero Cruceros, Oceania, Seabourn and Thomson.
That of 2012 - it has found the harbour agency - is a "season of resumption after two years of stasis, caused from the repercussions of the world-wide crisis that has forced two crocieristiche companies very, respective in 2010 and 2011, to cancel thirty ports of call at a time, leaving the portualità of the Sardinia North with signs negatives regarding the past".
They are about 250 thousand the crocieristi previewed in all the Sardinia North in 2012. "Second the studies introduced from Cemar agency of Genoa in occasion of the Seatrade Cruise Shipping Convention to Miami - the president of the Harbour Authority has explained, Paolo Piro - this year will be shut with a smallest bending regarding 2011, that is -0,76% for a total of 10.748.000 enlivened passengers and 4,891 landings place (in all the Italian ports, ndr), -5.59% regarding 2011. Decrease that, however, is compensated by a + 17% last year and that the leadership of Italy in the market of the Mediterranean does not carve".
"The little revolutionary breeding grounds of the Africa North and the critical situation of Greece - it has continued Piro - become a point to advantage of similar goals from the climatic point of view, as the Sardinia. 2012 and the interesting forecasts for 2013, very make to hope us in an ulterior increase of the traffics". The Harbour Authority has emphasized that for 2013 the return to Olbia of the MSC is already previewed Cruises, that has programmed 32 ports of call, while they are still in course the negotiations with other crocieristiche companies on Porto Torres, with a particular at the market winter reference. Regarding Golfo Aranci, instead - it has specified the harbour authority - the negotiations are on in order to inside insert the port of the circuits of some crocieristiche companies, with particular attention to that extraluxury.
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The Harbour Authority of the Sardinia North has announced that in crocieristica season 2012, that goes from March to the end of November, they are in program 116 ports of call of cruise ships to the ports of Olbia and Porto Torres regarding 71 ports of call in 2011 (in the 2010 have been 93 and 118 in 2008). The companies that this year will carry own ships in the two Sardinian ports are Aida, Azamara, Carnival, Coast, Ibero Cruceros, Oceania, Seabourn and Thomson.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
