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This year in the port of crocieristi (+140% are attended 493 thousand)
Previewed 183 ports of call between which that of the "Allure of the Seas", the larger ship of the world
February 14, 2014
For this year an ulterior increment of the crocieristico traffic in the port of is attended. It has announced today to prints the president of the Harbour Authority spezzina, Lorenzo Forcieri, explaining that in the 2014 183 ports of call of cruise ships (+124% on last year are previewed) for a number of passengers that will exceed quota 493 thousand (+140%).
Forcieri has remembered that 2013 have been the year that has marked the income of in the routes of the more important international crocieristiche companies thanks to the fleeting inauguration of the new dock to the Garibaldi pier and the restructure of the former center of customs for the acceptance of the passengers, while this year sees the confirmation of companies as Royal Caribbean, Costa Crociere, Ibero Cruceros, Disney Cruise Line and the arrival for the first time of the ships of Pullmantur, Radisson Cruises and MSC Cruises. This last one will use La Spezia, as it already happens if of Costa and Ibero, as "interporting", allowing therefore with the passengers to begin or to finish the cruise in the port they break. Particularly consisting it will be the traffic guaranteed from the Pullmantur Spanish of the group Royal Caribbean Cruises that beginning from April will carry to the ship Sovereign of the Seas for 19 ports of call, the Zenith for seven ports of call and the Horizon for a port of call. Moreover Forcieri has announced that during a its travel lightning bolt to Miami last January it is successful to make sure also the Allure of the Seas of Royal Caribbean International (group Royal Caribbean Cruises), the larger ship of the world with the binoculars Oasis of the Seas.
"Our Gulf - Forcieri has commented - confirmation as one of beautifulst and attractive of the Mediterranean and we are working alacremente in order to return our port of call more and more pleasant. The crocieristico field is in fact assuming always greater value for the city and the entire province; we must be engaged in order to do so as that the positive effects are multiplied and the economy tied to crocieristico tourism grows on all the territory. For this we must exit as soon as possible from the transitory phase, realizing the works previewed from the Portuale Town development plan, between which the new pier on Paita descent and the new crocieristica station".
Taking part to the encounter the director of the Agency of Customs of, Elvio La Tassa, it has found that "behind the world of the cruises the most disowned economy moves to: refuelings of fuel, alimentary supplies, markup of the water, cleansings, management refusals, porterage, transports, hotels, restaurants, logistics generally and many other asset that creates places of work. In the social role, besides that professional one, that they carry out the administrators publics - has emphasized - this aspect must have priority character, above all today, as the occupation, species that juvenile one, droops. Task of the administrations is that to rationalize and to simplify the bureaucracy, than often it intersects and sometimes the business activities hinder. The harbour community spezzina, the political forces, the civil and military authorities, also in this case, has demonstrated itself coese in facing and to resolve problematic the connected ones to the field of the cruises".
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