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The British All Leisure will sell the Discovery cruise ship
Currently the unit is rented the Cruise & Maritime Voyages
February 14, 2014
The British All Leisure group, than work in the crocieristico and tourist field with the marks Voyages of Discovery, Swan Hellenic, Hebridean Island Cruises and Discover Egypt Holidays, has announced the decision to sell the Discovery cruise ship that currently is rented the compatriot Cruise & Maritime Voyages, company that in recent days has found the German TransOcean Kreuzfahrten (inforMARE on January 27, 2014). All Leisure has specified that the unit, that produces economic losses, will be yielded at the end of the next summer.
The Discovery, of 20.186 tons of tonnage, is constructed in 1971 and the last one deepened restructure of the ship is carried out in 2003. The unit that is long 169 meters and wide 25 meters, has 354 cabins for an ability to 700 passengers.
Moreover All Leisure has announced that the board of directors has deliberated the necessity to recognize a reduction of the value of the Discovery pairs to 6,7 million pounds about, fair market value that has been reduced considerably in last the twelve months.
With respect to the course of the activity of own crocieristici marks, All Leisure it has specified that the Voyager, the cruise ship of the Voyages of Discovery, is in navigation in Far East and that, if the revenues deriving from the passengers are inferior regarding last year, the total returns considerably turn out advanced and the returns from the reservations exceed the totaled total revenues last year. All Leisure has specified that currently the sales cover 83.7% of the revenues previewed for the current financial year. Also the revenues generated from the passengers of the Minerva cruise ship of the Swan Hellenic are inferior to those last year, while the revenues from the reservations turn out advanced of +11.1% and currently the sales cover 87.9% of the revenues previewed for the current financial year. This year the cruise ship Hebridean Princess of the Hebridean Island Cruises will carry out a short season regarding that of the 2013 that will involve a reduction of the -4,2% of the ability, while an increment of the revenues is attended and currently the level of the reservations turns out advanced of +27% regarding that of a year makes; moreover up to now 81.4% of the revenues previewed for this year are sold.
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