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The USA authorities authorize the cruise ships of the Carnival group to land to Cuba
Attended the green light of the Havana. The first cruises to May 2016 with the brand fathom
July 7, 2015
The crocieristico group American Carnival Corporation has announced today to have obtained from the American departments of the Treasure and the Commerce the authorization to make to land the ships of own fleet to Cuba, ports of call that the group intends beginning from to carry out May 2016 through the own new created brand "fathom" indicating a marked social and humanitarian impact of the cruises.
Carnival has explained that it wants to use the cruises with the brand fathom in order to realize cultural, artistic and humanitarian exchanges between the citizens Americans and those Cuban. Beginning from April 2016 the Adonia, the only ship of the fathom that it has an ability to 710 passengers and that currently ago still part of the fleet of P&O Cruises, another crocieristico brand of the American group, will be employed for a month in a series of inaugural cruises towards the Dominicana Republic, in order then to offer regular cruises also for Cuba.
"We are absolutely enthusiastic to have obtained the approval of the USA, that important step constitutes the first but a lot in order to carry the tourists to Cuba in the within of the 12 current norms that regulate the authorized travels", it has emphasized the president and managing director of Carnival Corporation, Arnold Donald. "We do not see the hour - it has added - to work with the Cuban authorities for having their authorization and in order to make of the social, cultural and humanitarian exchanges between the American citizens and people of Cuba a truth. We - Donald has explained - know that there is a strong question by tourists who intend to dip themselves in the Cuban culture, for which this for us is an historical opportunity in order to allow to a greater number of people to experience the Cuban society".
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The crocieristico group American Carnival Corporation has announced today to have obtained from the American departments of the Treasure and the Commerce the authorization to make to land the ships of own fleet to Cuba, ports of call that the group intends beginning from to carry out May 2016 through the own new created brand "fathom" indicating a marked social and humanitarian impact of the cruises.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
