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In the port of Civitavecchia the larger cruise ship of the world has reached
"Oasis of the Seas" will be tomorrow to Naples and successively in Spain and to Rotterdam
September 15, 2014
Today in the port of Civitavecchia the Oasis of the Seas has reached for the first time that, with its 362 meters of length, is currently the larger cruise ship of the world. The port of call takes part of a short route that will tomorrow see the ship to Naples and then in Spain until to arrive to Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, for a dry-dock of ordinary maintenance in the ship yard Képpel Verolme. Once completed the revitalization, Oasis of the Seas will sail on 14 October from the Dutch port towards the coasts of Florida.
"For us - it has emphasized the general manager of RCL Cruises LTD Italy, Gianni Rotondo - it is a great opportunity to accommodate in Italy a ship as Oasis of the Seas, that it represents the more innovative produced one and to the vanguard in the crocieristico field. Its passage to Civitavecchia confirmation the will of the company to continue to invest on Italy and offers an European assay of the only experience that the Oasis class can guarantee with the exclusive services, the amazing shows and the present activities adapted to all the family on board. Oasis of the Seas - it has remembered Round - is not the single innovation that we have in Serb for our hosts, in fact to the end of October will inaugurate Quantum of the Seas that will sanction the debut of a new class of ships with a technology to the vanguard never seen before".
In the season 2015 Civitavecchia it will be the home port of the Allure of the Seas, binoculars of the Oasis of the Seas, than beginning from half May until september will sail every thursday from the Latium port, and every Sunday from Barcelona, for cruises of seven nights in the western Mediterranean with port of call to Palm of Majorca, Marseilles, La Spezia and Naples.
"The presence of one of the greatest cruise ships to the world, the Oasis of the Seas, that it lands in the port of Civitavecchia - has commented the president of the Harbour Authority of the Latium port, Pasqualino Monti - confirmation how much our port of call is more and more determining and strategic in the programming of the great crocieristiche companies as Royal Caribbean. Civitavecchia remains a tip port, much to become home port, in 2015, also for the other flagship of Royal Caribbean, Allure of the Seas. This programming by so an important company makes us to understand how much the port of Civitavecchia is strategic and important also in an optical of I throw again and of resumption of the economy he is Latium that national. From this the necessity comes down for the ports of Rome to print an ulterior acceleration is to the works in progress to Civitavecchia, that they will be completed the next year, and that they are indispensable in order to assure to the crocieristica question a more and more efficient offer of services; it is to the newborn crocieristico port of call of Fiumicino".
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