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the Spanish ports have closed the 2016 with a crocieristico traffic record of beyond 8,7 million passengers
Ferries and cruise ships have carried in the ports of call a total of 32,6 million people
January 20, 2017
According to the preliminary esteem, the Spanish ports have closed 2016 with a new historical record in the field of the cruises. Tourism (FITUR) in development to Madrid has announced governmental agency Puertos of the Estado in occasion of the participation to the thirty-seventh edition of Feria Internacional de.
If in the first eleven months last year the number of croceristi that is passed through the Spanish ports has exceeded eight million unit, with an increment of 2.2% regarding the same period of the year precedence, entire 2016 has been archived item with a total record of beyond 8,7 million crocieristi, traffic that is realized with the ports of call of 4.000 cruise ships.
Altogether in the 2016 traffic of the passengers enlivened from the Spanish ports it has been than more 32,6 million people between passengers of the ferries and the cruises.
Puertos of the Estado has remembered the measures assumed in Spain during the last few years in order to stimulate the companies of navigation and the tourist operators to include the Spanish ports in their crocieristici routes, between which the reduction of the taxes and the harbor dues let alone the extension of contracts of concession and the freezing of the taxes for the companies that have programmed new investments in order to improve own harbour structures.
Puertos of the Estado has remembered moreover that, second the relationships published from Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), the impact of the economic activities of the field of the cruises in Spain is estimated in beyond 1.255 million euros and the occupation guaranteed from the field is pairs altogether to job 26.389 places.
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According to the preliminary esteem, the Spanish ports have closed 2016 with a new historical record in the field of the cruises. Tourism (FITUR) in development to Madrid has announced governmental agency Puertos of the Estado in occasion of the participation to the thirty-seventh edition of Feria Internacional de.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
