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the Carnival group will have according to terminal cruises in the port of Barcelona
bordering Landing place for ships post-Panamax to the Palacruceros
September 27, 2013
The crocieristico group American Carnival Corporation & plc will consolidate its presence in the port of Barcelona where it will manage a new bordering terminal cruises to the Palacruceros, the crocieristico terminal managed from the Costa Crociere company of the group American who is inaugurated in 2007 ( on September 4, 2003, 27 January and 2924september 2005 and April 2007).
The Harbour Authority of Barcelona, in occasion of a today's encounter with the summits of Carnival, in fact has announced that the American group will construct and manage a new terminal cruises (Terminal E) to the Adossat Pier of the Catalan port where will invest beyond 20 million euros. To the encounter, happened near Palau de the Generalitat, the regional president's house of the Catalogna, has participated Artur Mas, president of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Giora Israel and Michel Nestour, senior vice president and respective vice president of Carnival Corporation, Xavier Trias, mayor of Barcelona, and Sixte Cambra, president of the Harbour Authority of Barcelona.
The new terminal, than - second the forecasts - will become operating in 2016, will cover an area of 10.000 square metres and will be able to receive cruise ships post-Panamax of the ability to about 4.500 passengers operating as landing place home port, where the passengers begin or end the cruise.
By the Catalan Harbour Authority an investment of 3,5 million euros to which million euro will join to others two in order to carry out work of urbanization around the Terminal and 1,5 million euros in order to improve the identifying one on the Adossat Pier is previewed.
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