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The crocieristico group Royal Caribbean signs an agreement with Port Authority of the American Islands Virgos
It will have a duration ten-year-old, with beginning from and option for on October 1°, 2016 ulterior five years
December 23, 2015
The American crocieristico group Royal Caribbean Cruises has signed an agreement with the Virgin Islands Port Authority (VIPA), the society that manages the two airports and the ports of the American Islands Virgos, that it previews approaches preferential classified to the ships of the crocieristico group to the Austin dock "Babe" Monsanto Marine Terminal to Crown Bay, that it is one of the two crocieristici landings place in the island of St. Thomas and that he is able to receive three cruise ships at the same time. The understanding previews moreover that Royal Caribbean Cruises guarantees a volume of crocieristico traffic and includes also an increase of the harbour taxes.
The contract undersigned from Royal Caribbean with VIPA has a duration ten-year-old, with beginning from and option for on October 1°, 2016 ulterior five years. The understanding previews also uses it by the ships of the group American of the crocieristico landing place Ann E. Abramson Marine Facility to Frederiksted, that it is the only crocieristico port in the island of St. Croix and that by 2002 it is used by the cruise ships without harbour taxes are debited. The agreement with Royal Caribbean previews instead the introduction of the payment of harbour taxes, in way such to allow with VIPA of having the resources in order to restructure and to improve the harbour infrastructure.
Currently to the landing place of Crown Bay two ships of the Royal Caribbean group arrive to alternate weeks, the Allure of the Seas and the Oasis of the Seas, that they are the two greater units from cruise of the world with an ability to 6.300 passengers. But the quota more consisting than crocieristico traffic generated from the group American is constituted by the landings place to Frederiksted realized with the ships Adventure of the Seas (3,100 pax) and Jewel of the Seas (2,500 pax).
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The American crocieristico group Royal Caribbean Cruises has signed an agreement with the Virgin Islands Port Authority (VIPA), the society that manages the two airports and the ports of the American Islands Virgos, that it previews approaches preferential classified to the ships of the crocieristico group to the Austin dock "Babe" Monsanto Marine Terminal to Crown Bay, that it is one of the two crocieristici landings place in the island of St. Thomas and that he is able to receive three cruise ships at the same time. The understanding previews moreover that Royal Caribbean Cruises guarantees a volume of crocieristico traffic and includes also an increase of the harbour taxes.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
