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MSC Cruises previews to close 2013 with a total of 1,6 million passengers
In the 2012 fleet of the company it had accommodated beyond 1,4 million passengers
October 18, 2013
MSC Cruises confirmation the trend of increase of the accommodated passengers on board of the ships of own fleet. In occasion of the participation to the TTG Incontri in development to Rimini, MSC Cruises has announced that it previews to close entire the 2013 with a total of 1,6 million passengers respect to beyond 1,4 million boarded passengers on the ships of the company in 2012, year in which MSC Cruises it has realized a turnover of 1,35 billion euros.
MSC Cruises has remembered moreover that the field of the cruises is a market that has not never known crisis and that, if in the 1970 the crocieristi were only 500 thousand, in the 2012 they have grazed 21 million, of which 11,6 million in America North, 6,26 million in Europe, 3,0 million in the remainder of the world. Such positive trend - it has emphasized the company - will continue in the next few years and the forecast to total level is of 25 million passengers within 2015 and 30 million within 2020.
MSC Cruises has evidenced that the crocieristiche companies continue to invest in new ships being increased the ability to the fleets, with the recorded greater increase in the area of the Mediterranean that in 10 years is increased of 195%; the Caribbean, also growing of 69%, has lost Europe and market shares (from 40% to 35%) to advantage of the Mediterranean anyway that entirety represent almost 30% of the field.
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