Fifty thousand English crocieristi will reach Genoa through the Christopher Columbus airport



Often the lack of synchronization between the activity is criticized and the programming of the Christopher Columbus airport of Genoa and that of the harbour port of call of the capital of Liguria that would be instead useful in order to favor I use it of aerial means by the crocieristi that are embarked or disembarked on the genoese docks dedicated to the passengers who are managed by Marine Stations.

An initiative in order to reduce this phase-difference between the parts is announced today by the Harbour Authority of Genoa, Marine Stations and Airport of Genoa in occasion of the first landing place in port of the Luck of P&O Cruises, the British brand of the crocieristico group Carnival Corporation that this year has chosen the capital of Liguria, with Venice, as home port of the cruise ship.

They will be about 50 thousand the tourists who give England will journey from Genoa in order to embark themselves or to disembark from the ship of the company. The Luck has in program travels of seven nights with stage in various Italian ports between Genoa and Venice, but also in Corsica and Croatia, and cruises of 14 nights that instead they will begin and finish in the port of Genoa. With its 294 meters of length and 116 thousand tons of tonnage, Luck is the greatest cruise ship managed from an English shipowning company. It can accommodate until three thousand passengers, and recently is renewed with a program of refit that it has added to 18 extra cabins luxury, a spa and various restaurants.

The crocieristi will arrive and leave on board in the capital of Liguria of charter flights that until on 15 October will connect regularly Genoa to London, Manchester and Birmingham (even if other tourists are attended also by Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle and other English cities). In order to facilitate the flow of passengers who will land and take off on board of nine flights, Airport of Genoa and Marine Stazioni they have managed a system of check-in and delivery of the baggages before the arrival in air terminal, while a new tensostruttura completely equipped is realized on the east side of Christopher Columbus. For the acceptance and the promotion of from Liguria territory, in air terminal a cartellonistica is managed ad hoc that will invite the crocieristi to make return in Liguria, while the magazine of Christopher Columbus is enriched with three pages in English realized in collaboration with the Agency "In Liguria", dedicated to the beauties and the main events of the region.

"That today - the general manager of Marine Stations has confirmed, Edoardo Monzani - is an important day because it sees the arrival of a new ship. It is also the first time that a ship uses Christopher Columbus as point of arrival of all its passengers. We hope to see P&O to Genoa in the next few years also".

"It is important to emphasize that - has added the president of the Airport of Genoa, Marco Arato - the choice of Genoa as home port of Luck for this summer 2014 is tied also to the presence of the airport to little distance from the center and the port. Our hope is that also in future Christopher Columbus confirms element of competitiveness for our territory".