In increase the traffic of the passengers of the ferries in the ports of Olbia, Golfo Aranci and Porto Torres



the Harbour Authority of the Sardinia North has announced that in the first eleven months of the 2015 three ports of Olbia, Golfo Aranci and Porto Torres they have recorded a traffic of approximately 3,7 million passengers of the ferries, with an increment of approximately 200 thousand unit regarding the correspondent period of 2014. In the single harbour port of call of Olbia - White Island the traffic has been almost 2,5 million passengers, 165 thousand in more of the year precedence; to Golfo Aranci passengers (35 thousand in) and to Porto Torres 676 thousand fleeting (more 28 thousand in less are enlivened than little more 513 thousand).

the harbour agency has announced moreover that in the period January-November of this year the three Sardinian ports have enlivened 5,155 million several tons of goods, in light bending on the same period of 2014, and that to these tons join little more than 893 thousand than solid bulk and 879 thousand of liquid.

In the crocieristico field entire 2015 will be archived item with a new record of landings place of white ships with a total of 149 ports of call, of which 123 to Olbia, 12 to Golfo Aranci and 14 to Porto Torres. This year the crocieristica season in the Sardinia North, begun 11 March, will conclude Sunday 20 touched Decembers with the last one, to Olbia of the Artania, ship of the German Phoenix Reisen.

With respect to the distribution of the ports of call between the various crocieristiche companies, also this year, so like in the past, the greater market share is of the Carnival group that, with Aida, Coast, Holland America and Seabourn, has totaled 61 ports of call; it follows the group Royal Caribbean with 34 total ports of call of companies Pullmantur, Croisieres de France and TUI, therefore MSC touched Cruises with 14, Thomson with 13 ports of call, Silversea with four.

Commenting the results achieved from the three Sardinian ports of call in 2015, the extraordinary commissioner of the Harbour Authority of the Sardinia North, Pietro Preziosi, has emphasized that a year of intense job is shut ", profitable and rich of satisfactions, trusting - it has added - in an increase still more exciting in 2016. The resumption of the traffics, the important start infrastructuring works and the injection of confidence that derives from the job of the harbour enterprises, of the nautical services technical, from all the operators of the port and from our concessionaires - has explained - it pushes to us to look in way still more optimistic the next year".

Citing some innovations for 2016, Prezioni has announced some days before that "the resumption of the every day connections of the Grimaldi group is communicated officially on the draft Civitavecchia - Porto Torres - Barcelona. By the spring - it has announced moreover Precious - Golfo Aranci will be connected with France and other innovations will be made official at the beginning of 2016 on Olbia. He is obvious - it has found - that the system of the marine transports on this portion of island is being juiced up. Event that, strengthened from a healthy competition between shipowners, I am sure will be able to give back to our ports the recorded entusiasmanti numbers in years 2009-2010".

Sul forehead of the cruises, Precious has observed that "2016 will be sure a year of arrangement for the crocieristico system. We leave - it has evidenced the extraordinary commissioner of the harbour agency - strong of an advertising action without precedence, which that of the assembly of MedCruise of October, in order to collect new yields in the next few years. We have already received the confirmations from the historical companies, which Coast, MSC, Aida, Pullmantur and of some shipowning groups that lack from years, at this point, from the scene of the Sardinia North. A return that will not find our ports ill-prepared".