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Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings signs an agreement with the port of Seattle
It has a duration 15-year-old. Pier 66 will be used as home port for the cruises in Alaska
August 12, 2015
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (NCLH), group to which is under responsibility the crocieristici marks Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL), Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises (RSSC), has signed an agreement of the duration 15-year-old with the port of Seattle based on which in this period the cruise ships will make landing place Bell Street Cruise Terminal of the American port of call. Moreover the understanding engages the crocieristico group to realize improvements to the terminal mainly cruises investing to you 30 million dollars for the widening of Pier 66.
"This - it has emphasized the managing director of the Port of Seattle, Ted Fick - is an historical agreement for the port of Seattle. A contract of concession of the duration 15-year-old for a terminal cruises - it has explained - unprecedented constitutes a fact in West Coast". The Port of Seattle previews that, thanks to the understanding, in own cases group NCL will pour 73 million dollars altogether. Moreover, second the forecasts, the ports of call of the ships of group NCLH will generate a volume of transactions pairs to beyond two billions of dollars in the entire region, they will support about job 900 places and they will produce beyond 65 million dollars in local taxes and state.
The managing director of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings, Frank Del Rio, has evidenced that Seattle constitutes an ideal home port for the cruises in Alaska, region that is one of the favorite goals of the customers of the three crocieristici marks of the group.
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