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In the 2014 Mediterranean ports of MedCruise they have enlivened 25,8 million crocieristi (- 7.2%)
The ports of call of cruise ships are diminished of the -7,7% regarding 2013
March 23, 2015
In the 2014 Mediterranean ports that are under responsibility of MedCruise, the association of the crocieristici ports of the region that represents harbour ports of call that last year have enlivened 80% of the entire crocieristico traffic of the Mediterranean, has recorded altogether a traffic almost 25,8 million crocieristi, with a bending of the -7,2% regarding 2013. Last year the ports of call of cruise ships in the ports of MedCruise have been 13,716, down of the -7,7% on 2013.
The data on the volume of enlivened crocieristico traffic from the associated ports to MedCruise are returned famous by the association in occasion of Cruise Shipping Miami, the main world-wide crocieristica fair are turned last week to Miami.
The association has evidenced that, in spite of the contraction, the total data of crocieristico traffic last year is rapportato to a year, 2013, in which 2000 are established a traffic record beginning from and turn out to be absolutely positive if comparative to the volume of crocieristico traffic recorded five years ago: the total of 2014 is in fact advanced of +4.8% regarding 24,6 million the crocieristi enlivened in 2010.
"The bending of 2014 - it has observed moreover MedCruise in the just last report on the traffic in the crocieristici ports of the Mediterranean - is the result of the particular attention that the crocieristiche companies have placed on the Asian market, arranged with the relatively slow increase of the crocieristiche activities all over the world in the course of the same year. The challenge for the ports and the Mediterranean destinations and for all the stakeholdeers - it has found the association - is to transform this decrease in a temporary fact being realized all those necessary conditions for an ulterior increase".
Last year the crocieristico traffic in the single ports of MedCruise that are placed in the western Mediterranean is piled 17,8 million passengers, with a decrease of the -4,7% on 2013. In the 2014 adriatic ports of MedCruise they have enlivened 4,6 million crocieristi (- 10.0%), the ports of the crocieristi Mediterranean oriental 3,0 million (- 15.6%%) and the ports of Black Sea 162 thousand (- 13.5%).
In the 2014 single Italian ports of MedCruise they have enlivened almost 9,8 million crocieristi, with a bending of the -7,4% respect to beyond 10,5 million in the year precedence.
Also last year the port of Barcelona has confirmed the first crocieristico port of the Mediterranean with a traffic almost 2,4 million passengers, with a decrease of the -9,0% on 2013.
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In the 2014 Mediterranean ports that are under responsibility of MedCruise, the association of the crocieristici ports of the region that represents harbour ports of call that last year have enlivened 80% of the entire crocieristico traffic of the Mediterranean, has recorded altogether a traffic almost 25,8 million crocieristi, with a bending of the -7,2% regarding 2013. Last year the ports of call of cruise ships in the ports of MedCruise have been 13,716, down of the -7,7% on 2013.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
