Region Calabria and AP of Gioia Tauro meet Venice Passenger terminal with the objective to develop the cruises



The vice president of the Calabria Region, Antonella Stasi, and the general secretary of the Harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro, Salvatore Silvestri, has met the managing director of Venice Passenger terminal (VTP), Roberto Perocchio, accompanied by Antonio di Monte, managing director of the Cagliari Cruise Port, branch of the VTP. Objective of the encounter, as well as to complete the visit to the crocieristici ports calabrians, has been that to verify the possible interactions between the Venetian society and the harbour truths calabrians. The regional agency calabro has remembered that VTP is founded in 1997 from the Harbour Authority of Venice in order to promote and to increase the fleeting activity in the lagoon port and that work, as well as to Venice, also in other strategic ports of the Mediterranean as Ravenna, Catania, Cagliari and for last Brindisi. From part its VTP wants to continue to expand its operations also in the ports calabrians through the involvement of the regional institutions and with the Harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro, with which they have started dialogue tests.

"That to carry the know-how-how matured from VTP in ports characterized from a potential one little taken advantage of - it has found Antonella Stasi - is a strategy whom it has given good yields. We consider that such results can be reached also in the ports of the Calabria (Crotone, Vibo Valentia, Reggio Calabria and Corigliano) that they anticipate sure attractive interesting for the market. The excellence in the efficient management of VTP and the project and important development innovative of marketing applied to this segment is a reference for many ports of call and today the Calabria wants to be confronted with this model".

"President Scopelliti and the committee - he has continued the vice president of the Calabria Region - have started an action of promotion of own ports. The which got ahead job could be visible from 2015, that in course is a running year. We are convinced that crocieristico tourism represents a real one flies for the promotion of the territory. Already we have begun with the promotion to Marseilles and Miami and will continue to september to the Seatrade Europe in program to Amburgo from the 27 on September 29, 2013. The ports of the Calabria are in strategic position in the Mediterranean. In some year - it has concluded Antonella Stasi - we count to increase embarks to it, putting to I yield the great potentialities of this region, the presence of four important harbour infrastructures for the croceristici flows, the presence of three airports, of which two to little minutes of distance from the ports, and that they must be to support also of the tourism that comes from the sea".