the ports of Bari, Brindisi and Taranto have introduced the crocieristica offer of the Apulia to the Seatrade di Miami



Last week to Miami, in the within of the thirtieth edition of the Seatrade Cruise and Shipping Convention, the main international exhibition manifestation on the cruises, the three apulian ports of Bari, Brindisi and Taranto have been introduced under the acronym of APP - Apulian Ports placed side by side from the Region Apulia with the brand "ViaggiareinPuglia".

Commenting the outcome of the mission, Francesco Mariani, president of the Harbour Authority of the East and president of the association of the apulian ports Apulian Ports, it has explained that the promotion activity is time "to the strengthening of the question-offered binomial in order to continue in the work, already today in good realized part, of the destagionalizzazione of tourism from cruise". Marian it has remembered that today through the port of Bari two million passengers journey per year about, of which about 600 thousand are crocieristi, and that the port has in program important infrastructural investments to support of the always increasing question of the crocieristico market: in particular, the widening of the Terminal is previewed Cruises and the construction of a new pier of 350 meters near the Dock of West in order to more easily allow the mooring of mega the units of new construction.

Marian it has anticipated in the next few months that the port of Bari will be visited by some of the operators whom met to Miami in order to carry out inspections in sight of test of landing place for crocieristica season 2015. "Between the companies interested - it has specified - detaches a prestigious company specialized in the cruises of the luxury, with equally alternative routes and little commercial, to the search of little ones you carry and isolated bays in some of the more precious destinations to the world".

2013 have been a year of transition in the segment of the cruises for the port of Bari, that it has closed the season with a total of 604.781 passengers in 171 ports of call regarding 618.882 passengers in 206 ports of call in 2012. The Harbour Authority of the East has emphasized that, instead, the 2014 are shown very intense: the season sees the confirmation of the two companies that regularly scale the port of Bari, Costa Crociere and MSC Cruises, let alone of the shipowning companies Royal Caribbean (the second company world-wise that will scale Bari with the brand of the luxury Celebrity Cruises), AIDA Cruises, Fred Olsen Cruises and Pullmantur Cruises.

For the port of Brindisi, season 2014 will open next 15 April with the arrival of the Azamara Quest. They are in all 23 approaches to it already made official of ships of several companies that have confirmed Brindisi between the ports of call included in own crocieristiche programmings or they have inserted it this year for the first time. Between the new entry there is maiden the call of the ship Mein Schiff 3 of the TUI Cruises that has programmed eight approaches summery.

"The calendar for 2014 - it has specified the president of the Harbour Authority of Brindisi, Hercules Haralambides - still is opened to other eventual last-minute proposals, while the agency is already programming 2015, year for which we have already schedulato some approaches of cruise ships". Haralambides has evidenced as an increasing interest" for the port of Brindisi is found ": season 2014, in fact, would have to mark an increment of 332.2% of the crocieristi in arrival in the port of call; if in 2013 on 15 touched are disembarked in the city 4,628 passengers, the esteem for the year in course speak about a presence (calculated for defect) of beyond 20 thousand fleeting.

Also the Harbour Authority of Taranto is engaged in the tourist development also of the port and its services to the aim to realize the institutional objective to promote the traffics and to diversify the activities of the port of call. In such optical which are previewed some infrastructural participations the requalification of the Pier S. Cataldo, the realization of Centro Servizi Polivalente and the Port Exhibition Center that an innovative "laboratory of the marine culture" will accommodate. The port of Taranto, to the aim to propose itself in the consolidated panorama of the crocieristiche destinations, in full synergy with the other apulian ports of call, promotes excursions and routes of historical-archaeological, enogastronomic and naturalistic character as in the case of the Green Road, an innovative distance to the standard of the sustainability and the discovery of the traditions.

"The presence of the Harbour Authority of Taranto to edition 2014 of the Seatrade Cruise and Shipping di Miami - the president of the agency has confirmed, Sergio Prete - represents a useful opportunity in order to consolidate the total offer of the apulian portualità let alone the occasion in order to finalize the already under way relationships of collaboration with operators of the field interested to establish own presence in the Jonian port of call".