In the 2013 Italian market of the cruises it will return to grow



According to the forecasts of marine agency genoese Cemar Agency Network, in the 2013 Italian market of the cruises it will be characterized by a return to the increase. Participating to the Seatrade Cruise Shipping, the main world-wide manifestation dedicated to the operators of the cruises that have been opened today to Miami, the president of Cemar, Sergio Senesi, have substantially confirmed the precedence forecasts formulated from the agency ( on 28 September and 27 November 2012) explaining that the recent projections indicate that 2013 it will make to record a light increment in terms of enlivened passengers: 11.005.000 units, with a +1.91% regarding the result of the 2012 equivalent to 10.798.403 passengers who Cemar judges the optimal although light decrease regarding 2011. In touched increase also the ship in the Italian ports (4,949 in 2013 and 4,897 in the 2012) and number of shipping presents in Italy (56 against the 47 of 2012).

According to the forecasts of Cemar, to the term of the 2013 they will be journeyed in Italian waters 151 cruise ships against the 148 of 2012 (+2.02%). They will diminish, instead, the number of involved Italian ports in the crocieristica activity, that they will pass from 66 in 2012 to 63 in 2013 (- 4.54%) for effect of I decree "Saves Coasts", that the prohibition of navigation to the ships of beyond 500 tons in the belt of two nautical miles from the perimeter of the parks and the protect marine areas has tax.

"In the course of 2013 - it has found Sienese - we will assist unfortunately to a drastic decrease, if not to the disappearance, of the ports of call in some smaller ports, which Portofino (almost -50%), Ischia, La Maddalena and Porto Cervo, decrease due to the effects negatives of I decree "Saves Coasts" that, in practice, it has meant the loss of about 40.000 passengers in the section of the luxury cruises: in spite of the profuse engagement from the local institutions, the shipowners have with justice favorite to address to near destinations and mainly guaranteed, favoring also so the ports of Costa Azzurra and the Corsica".

Cemar previews that in 2013 Civitavecchia will newly confirm first Italian port with beyond 2.450.000 enlivened passengers, followed from Venice, from Genoa (than exceeding 1,1 million passengers it will earn two place), from Naples and Savona (than for the first time it will reach a million passengers). Livorno instead will lose beyond 18% of the traffic retreating to the sixth position in favor of La Spezia.

According to Answers Tourism, the society of search and advising to service of the tourist macroindustry founded and presided by Francesco di Cesar, this year the crocieristico traffic in Italy will pile instead to about 11,5 million the passengers, with in increment of +6.3% on 2012, and the touched ships will be 5,237 (+5.2%). Different also it classifies it for 2013 of the main Italian crocieristici ports drafted from the society, in which Civitavecchia figure to the first place with beyond 2,4 million enlivened passengers and 963 touched ships, followed by Venice (beyond 1,8 million passengers and 680 touched ships) and from Naples (beyond 1,2 million passengers and 492 touched ships). Behind of the head trio, according to Answers Tourism, they place i
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Riposts Tourism have communicated that, for a misprint, handling fleeting to Livorno is indicated as stable, while the forecasts speak about -3,6%
ports of Genoa and Livorno, with about million passengers everyone (+25.4% for Genoa, ~~stable Livorno~~) and, respective, 280 (+31.5%) and 482 (+3.7%) touched ships.

Riposts Tourism have evidenced as these forecasts for 2013, yield of the information obtained from the 25 crocieristici ports more important of Italy, fleeting representative truths of 87% of the traffic and of 89% of the touched ships, they show a decided resumption of the crocieristico market after 2012 chiusosi, always according to Answers Tourism, with about 10,9 million enlivened passengers (- 5.5%) and 4,949 touched ship (- 8.3%), contractions - it has explained the society - deriving from the combination of the economic crisis, of the effect post Concord and of I decree "Saves Coasts" that has penalized the smaller ports of call, variable that they have weighed above all in the first semester of the year.

"The forecasts for crocieristico traffic 2013 in our Country - Francesco has asserted di Cesar - show as the section has known ready to react to the contraction recorded in 2012 approaching again to the levels records obtained in 2011. After the parenthesis last year, the trend of increase of the crocieristica question seems to be shared and Italy, for the quality of own tourist offer, will not be able that to continue to be one of the destinations more searched in the international panorama, for how much it will be able and have to still make a lot in order to align the results to real potential the able one to express".

To Miami the port of Salerno is present also, than from five years opened to the crocieristico field and that it participates to the American exhibition manifestation with an exhibition space of the Harbour Authority. The harbour agency previews that also in the 2013 they will increase the landings place of cruise ships to of the Campania port of call: in fact, from March to December they are in program about 90 ports of call, in spite of the very many ones demanded - it has emphasized the authority - to which has not been possible to give to course because of the infrastructural work and of the completion of new crocieristico Polo.

"By April of 2014 - it has specified the president of the Harbour Authority of Salerno, Andrea Annunziata - we will have new crocieristico Polo with the marine Station, an important work of contemporary architecture, designed from archistar Zaha Hadid and the Manfredi Pier, lengthened and equipped in order to receive the beautifulst cruise ships than last generation. In the past few years - it has confirmed Announced - we have had to refuse numerous proposals of great international crocieristiche companies because of the current deficiency of moorings; but the potentialities of our port of call are enormous and we will take advantage of to them at best. For 2014, to work completed, we will be able to receive many other companies and we preview the doubling of the ports of call and means million crocieristi, that they would have to double to the term of the next four-year term".