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the ports of Bari, Brindisi and Taranto have participated to the event Cruise Shipping Miami
For the first time they have been introduced jointly with the brand Apulian Ports
March 19, 2013
Apulian Ports, the association of the apulian ports of Bari, Brindisi and Taranto, has participated for the first time in combined way to Cruise Shipping Miami, 29th the edition of the crocieristica international manifestation held last week to Miami, joining to the collective with a stand of 40 square metres and the sponsorship of the Region Apulia, anticipates with the ViaggiareinPuglia brand, official portal of Tourism of the Councillorship to the Mediterranean, Culture and Tourism.
"It has been - explained the president of the Harbour Authority of Taranto, Sergio Prete - a experience a lot interesting and profitable for our port, for the first time it anticipates to this fair. They have been meaningful replies with international operating important, above all with reference to the location of new destinations. The Harbour Authority of Taranto will start on the topic a necessary deepening with the territorial private public bodies and".
The president of the Harbour Authority of Brindisi, Hercules Haralambides, currently to the guide of the association of the ports of Apulia, to the term of the second experience to the Cruise Shipping Miami has found that "also this year the fundamental role of the apulian ports has been confirmed, than, thanks to their strategic position inside of the Mediterranean, represents the node of connection between the Adriatic and the western Mediterranean and oriental. The trend of the cruises in the Mediterranean - it has specified Haralambides - continues to being in increase, as they demonstrate to the data introduced from Medcruise (association of the crocieristici ports of the Mediterranean), and this spurs to us to work still better in order to create new occasions of promotion of our territory".
The president of the Harbour Authority of the East, Francesco Mariani, has put in evidence the importance of the regional Network which door of access towards the routes of the Mediterranean oriental: "the apulian ports - it has emphasized - are living a extremely challenging season, with characterized managerial politics from a strong tendency to the infrastructuring. The objective is that to ulteriorly strengthen the increase of the field ferries and cruises, heading to a total requalification of the tourist field, that it uses the modality of marine transport with a trend of strong increase in the Mediterranean area".
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