Initiative of the Harbour Authority of Brindisi in order to promote the crocieristico traffic



The president of the Harbour Authority of Brindisi, Hercules Haralambides, has convened an encounter with the objective to favor the consolidation and development of the crocieristiche activities in the apulian port of call that has held tuesday in the center of the agency and to which has participated the city council member to the activities of the Municipality of Brindisi, Giuseppe De Maria, the civil employee of Apulia Promotion - center of Brindisi, Giancarlo Zullino, and management of the harbour authority and to which had been also Province, Chamber of Commerce, Confesercenti, Confcommercio and CNA.

"Crocieristica season 2015 - Haralambides has explained - is for Brindisi an occasion that cannot be lost for lack of organizational ability. To such appointment the city must be made to find prepared. Opened stores, acceptance services, tastings, guided tours and how much other can induce the visitors to return to Brindisi".

Sharing the initiative of the president of the Harbour Authority, the city council member De Mary has taken the engagement to convene, quickly after the festivity christmas, trade associations to the aim to manage a plan of participations to carry to the attention of being instituted a technical table of all the interested actors.

In the course of the Haralambides encounter it has announced that the harbour Authority has among other things lead a study, with the effettuazione of the simulation of the maneuvers of exited income and from the internal port, that it has allowed to preview the possibility of the berthing of the cruise ships also to the carboniferous dock. The landing place would allow with the passengers to disembark in the heart of the city, creating the full osmosis between the center and the waterfront.

To Brindisi the next crocieristica season will begin on 13 April. In the 2015 already 56 landings place of cruise ships are confirmed: they are in program the ports of call of the Mein Schiff of German company TUI, that already it is landed to Brindisi in the slid season and that the next year will touch the port 13 times; the calendar previews also six ports of call of Thomson Celebration of the britanica Thomson, one of the Voyager of the Seas of the American Royal Caribbean International and one of the Royal Clipper of the Monegasque Clippers Star. The Harbour Authority has emphasized that moreover, after an important job that has seen the agency engaged on various fronts, company MSC Cruises has confirmed the will to make of Brindisi one of its home port for cruise ship MSC Magnifica, for which already has been programmed 34 landings place to the apulian port. According to the forecasts with esteem to decrease of the harbour agency, in the 2015 crocieristico traffic it will carry in the city not less than 100.000 tourists.