Municipality and Harbour Authority of Salerno under consideration have the construction of a new dock for the cruises



Municipality and Harbour Authority of Salerno under consideration have the possibility to construct a new harbour dock dedicated to the traffic of the cruises. The mayor of of the Campania city has announced past friday, Vincenzo De Luca, in the course of the presentation of crocieristica season 2012 of the American crocieristica company Royal Caribbean to Salerno.

"We are reflecting, together with the Harbour Authority - De Luca has explained - with respect to the possibility to take part on the town-planning plan for the creation of a new pier. We work also in the direction of a full involvement of the companies in the entrepreneurial management of infrastructures, in particular of the Marine Station, that we imagine managed in order to guarantee the maximum of the efficiency and the functionality".

"The realized aware transformation from the Municipality of Salerno - it has continued the mayor - has returned the more and more attractive city for great investor. The interest of Royal Caribbean, the second crocieristica company of the world, confirmation the line of increase of a city that aims for the economy of the sea which central axis of development and that it aimed to become the Capital of a tourist district of world-wide relief with to little kilometers the Coast of Amalfi, Paestum, Pompei. It is this, therefore, an ulterior demonstration of the ability to attraction of our city, destined to grow esponenzialmente in future, when Salerno becomes the city richer than works than contemporary architecture. Salerno, moreover, guarantees a fundamental precondition: safety. One of the main reasons is that push great entrepreneurs to invest in our truth. We are a lot interested to the investment programs of Royal Caribbean, in particular in reference to the field of infrastructures".

"We work therefore - it has concluded De Luca - in order to take advantage of to the potential enormous maximum the economic one of crocieristico tourism, clearly testified from the data elaborated from the company. This Royal Caribbean year will carry out 29 ports of call to Salerno, for a total volume of about 56.000 passengers and 25,000 members of the crew, that 12 hours will pause in the city in order very. Being to the surveys of 2011, for every carried out port of call the benefit in economic terms is in average of 50.000 euros: a fast calculation affords to comprise that the entire season will carry a total benefit of about 1.500.000 euros: an indeed important data that allows to estimate to full load the fallen back one in economic terms for our city".

"From years - John Tercek, vice president commercial development of Royal Caribbean has confirmed - Salerno carries out a role of primary importance in the programming of the Royal Caribbean group. In the 2012 Serenade of the Seas it will make port of call 15 times for a total of beyond 37.000 enlivened passengers and in the 2013 this number it will go up to 17 ports of call. Our engagement is not alone legacy to the attrattività of the destination, but it is also the result of the optimal collaboration undertaken with the Harbour Authority, the local institutions - in particular the Municipality of Salerno and the main operators of the field. Royal Caribbean is the only company of cruise that it has invested in the society that manages the crocieristico traffic of Salerno - Salerno Cruises Srl - participating with 30%".

"The port of Salerno - it has found the president of the Harbour Authority, Andrea Annunziata - has conquered a central role for the movement of the goods, the passengers and the cruise ships. In tune with the agencies of government of the territory we have obtained turned out important thanks to the investments for safety and the operating efficiency of our port of call appreciated from all the tourist operators and cargo vessels. With the Municipality of Salerno we head for the constant development of the crocieristico pole of Salerno that can become more and more important and strategic in the next few years".