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To Porto Torres the Equinox has arrived, cruise ship that constitutes a record for the portualità of the Sardinia North
On board there are 3,070 passengers and 1,200 members of the crew
July 2, 2014
This morning in the port of Porto Torres the Equinox, the greatest cruise ship never landed in the three managed harbour ports of call from the Harbour Authority of the Sardinia North has arrived. Given to its dimensions the ship of Royal Caribbean International, that it is long 315 meters and it has a tonnage of 122 thousand tons, it is accommodated to the pier Asi 2, dock from 330 meters of length recently subordinate to a deep operation of restyling.
On board of the Equinox there are 3,070 passengers and 1,200 members of the crew. To giving a first welcome to the hosts it has been a nourished committee of acceptance coordinated from the municipal administration of Porto Torres and in the course of the morning a salute to the commander of the ship is carried on board by admiral Nunzio Martello, extraordinary commissioner of the Harbour Authority. "That today - it has emphasized Hammer - represents an important starting point. To have the honor to accommodate a ship of these dimensions to Porto Torres it puts us of forehead to a scene that ago very to hope for the future of the crocieristico market in this part of Sardinia. An opportunity for the agency that administers the three ports of call of the north, but, above all, for a territory that has necessity of new alternatives of development, between which the crocieristico tourism that, as it happens in all the remainder of the world, generating fallen back important confirmation economic if known to pick and to cuddle".
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