Agreement of cooperation which signed from CLIA Europe and Cruise Europe



CLIA Europe, the European sezioine of the crocieristica association international Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), and Cruise Europe, association to which is under responsibility 125 operators of the field of the cruises of north-western Europe, has signed a letter of attempts with the scope to develop and to strengthen the European crocieristico field. The agreement has been undersigned yesterday to Madrid in occasion of the supper anniversary of CLIA Europe to the Palacio Neptuno.

CLIA Europe and Cruise Europe have agreed an enclosed series of initiatives the creation of a working team in order to concentrate themselves in the course of next the five years on environmental topics in European within. The group will be constituted at the beginning of 2017 and will launch a program of combined initiatives with the objective at the same time to develop to sustainable crocieristiche activities and the protection of the atmosphere.

"This combined initiative, based on the mutual cooperation and the sharing of the acquaintances - the president of CLIA Europe has explained, Pierfrancesco Vago - will also strengthen the social responsibility of our field continuing to focus itself on the contribution to the European economy". "The collaboration - it has specified the president of Cruise Europe, Michael McCarthy - will be concentrated on the environmental issues that regard our associates of the several regions in the course of next the 3-5 years. With 25 history years, Cruise Europe has optimal bases in order to contribute, to collaborate and to make lobby on the environmental issues and normative premises, national and international. This is of fundamental importance for our given field and our associates the current signs of a protezionistico and isolationist political scene in matter of world-wide, ambient commerce and travels".

While today to Madrid has opened the crocieristica manifestation International Cruise Summit 2016 in the course of which Pierfrancesco Vago, in dresses of president of CLIA Europe and of MSC executive chairman Cruises, he has emphasized that beginning from the 2008 field of European the cruises has grown of +49% and that the continuous section to progress every year. In 2015 - it has specified - 123 ships from cruise of 39 crocieristiche companies that operate in European waters have boarded altogether 6,6 million passengers, with an increment of +3% regarding the year precedence, and the European ports have recorded an increase of +4.5% in the number of embark of European passengers elevating the total to 6,12 million European crocieristi. These last ones represent 28.4% of the total number of crocieristi world-wise, than in 2015 it has been of 23.19 million passengers.
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has evidenced that last year the contribution of the cruises to the European economy has been pairs almost 41 billion euros (+2%) and that the direct expense of the industry of the cruises in Europe has been pairs to 16,89 billion euros.

Al crocieristico summit of Madrid participates also the Harbour Authority of Cagliari. The extraordinary commissioner of the Sardinian agency, Roberto Isidori, has explained of being favorably made an impression from Spain, "than - he has specified - through a real one and convinced team job he is growing in this field in exponential way. During the conference an amazing data is emerged: the Iberian country this year records 24 million passengers whom, regarding four the million passengers of ten years ago, an increase of 600% represents an incredible record yields of an intelligent and effective job between private entrepreneurs and institutions. To this example - it has emphasized Isidori - we must look also in Sardinia exceeding divisions and particolarismi. In this optical the collaboration climate that we have started with interested Sardinia Region, Municipalities, local Chambers of Commerce and players is giving its yields: after a 2016 Cagliari record in 2017 it will be between the Italian crocieristici ports to greater increase. In such context - it has concluded Isidori - the application of the reform that characterizes for the Sardinia an only agency of management for all the ports goes sure in the just direction".

Illustrating the objectives of the participation of the Harbour Authority to the International Cruise Summit 2016, the responsible marketing of the agency of Cagliari, Valeria Mangiarotti, has confirmed the income in the Sardinian port of the terminalista society Global Holding Ports (GPH) of the Turkish group Global Investment Holdings, than this summer it has started negotiations in order to install in some terminals Italian cruises(of 23 August 2016): "the society Cruise Global of holding the Global Ports - it has specified - has acquired important social participation in various European ports between which that of Cagliari. Such policy will be able sure to increase the potentialities of the port of call. Global Ports is the greatest world-wide operator in the management of terminal and crocieristici ports. It stops nine ports in six countries. With a position consolidated in the Mediterranean, in Asia and the Pacific, five million passengers with a quota enliven to world almost 20% of the traffic of the Mediterranean. For Cagliari - it has emphasized Mangiarotti - it wants to say to enter in the more important Network to the world, that it will act in support of the traffics and the increase of our port of call".