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the port of Savona celebrates the decimilionesimo crocierista
Costa Crociere has rewarded genoese Paola Braschi with a cruise around the world. Miazza: this year the crocieristi will be about one hundred thousand that have visited the city
November 23, 2015
Paola Braschi is the decimilionesima crocierista journeyed in the port of Savona, port of call that has begun the activity in this field in 1996 with the arrival of the Costa Riviera ship. The genoese mrs., with the husband and to the two sons, is passed in from Liguria port in occasion of a vacation on Costa Diadema.
In order to celebrate the event the Costa Crociere company has rewarded Paola Braschi with a cruise of 98 days around the world on the Costa Luminosa ship that will leave on September 2, 2016 from Savona, while the Municipality of Savona has delivered to the crocierista a pass in order free of charge to visit the Civic Museums of the city until the end of the next year.
"We are pleased - it has emphasized the general manager of Costa Crociere, Neil Palomba - of being able to celebrate this historical goal. It is an obvious sign than Savona and Costa Crociere has grown with in almost 20 years of collaboration. Savona - it has remembered - is today our port number in the world. For this we have intentional to reward decimilionesimo the host with a "Turn of the World", an indeed special cruise, that it represents the dream of every traveller".
Also the president of the Harbour Authority of Savona, Gian Luigi Miazza, has manifested satisfaction for the attainment of this goal, than - he has explained - he is reached "thanks to the assigned engagement and to the daily job of beyond 200 that the harbour community takes itself to cure of every detail and all that I thank. To end of this year - it has found Miazza - they will be around the one hundred thousand crocieristi that have visited the city of Savona and that they are journeyed in our office acceptance. An other beautiful result that goes in the optical to improve the tourist offer constantly to who it arrives in our port and our territory".
"Little less than twenty years - it has observed the mayor of Savona, Federico Berruti - never we would ago not have imagined to today celebrate decimilionesimo the fleeting legacy to crocieristiche activities, than today they are a feather in the cap of the port of Savona. It is a meaningful goal not only for the numbers, that they in concrete terms testify the dimension of the reached tourist movement, but above all for the potentialities of development of our city".
Main impulse to the exceptional increase of the crocieristico traffic in the port of Savona has been the takeover in the port of call of the Costa Crociere company, than of it has made the own main crocieristica base in the Mediterranean. In 2003 in the savonese port the Palacrociere terminal is inaugurated managed from the same Coast, to which it is continuation in the 2008 realization of the third party I in November approach crocieristico and the 2014 opening of according to terminal of the Palacrociere. Altogether from 2003 to 2015 Costa Crociere and Harbour Autorità of Savona they have invested about 30 million euros in the port.
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