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MSC Cruises rents for 100 years a island in the Caribbean
Agreement with the government of Bahamas. The investment will pile to approximately 200 million dollars
December 17, 2015
Yesterday to Nissau the Prime Minister of Bahamas, Perry Christie, and the MSC executive chairman Cruises, Pierfrancesco Vago, has signed a lease 100-year-old for it uses exclusive and the development from the crocieristica company of a desert island of 38,5 hectares that anticipates six spiagge along the 3,5 kilometers of coast. The island, that "Reserve Marina Ocean Cay MSC" will be called, is found to 32 kilometers to south of Bimini and 104,5 east kilometers of Miami.
MSC Cruises has announced that in next the two years it will work to tightened contact with the government of Bahamas and the ecologists in order to create to a luxuriant marine reserve, inserted in harmonic way in the local ecosystem, on the coralline island, a time taken advantage of for the sand extraction. The investment from the crocieristica company will pile to approximately 200 million dollars.
Vague
has emphasized that draft of the greatest plan than development of a island undertaken from any crocieristica company in the Caribbean and of a natural evolution for the MSC Cruises: "we are enthusiastic - it has added - to offer this completely new experience to our crocieristi in the Caribbean. Reserve Marina Ocean Cay MSC and its exclusive offer will on board constitute a magnificent extension of the experience of our ships".
MSC Cruises previews the beginning of the intense activities on the island to March the 2016 and opening to the hosts of Reserve Marina Ocean Cay MSC to November 2017.
the company has explained that the plan for Reserve Marina Ocean Cay MSC will carry to a permanent presence of MSC Cruises in Bahamas and the society previews to recruit 240 bahamiani in 2016 and 2017. Moreover the company will open a school for crews to Nassau in order to form local labor for the increasing number of ships MSC present Cruises in the Caribbean.
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