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Global Holding Ports will manage the crocieristiche activities in the Cuban port de the Havana
The Turkish company will collaborate to the planning of a new terminal cruises
May 22, 2018
The Turkish terminalista society Global Holding Ports (GPH), that it is specialized in the management of terminals crocieriti to us and is present in numerous important Mediterranean ports let alone to Lisbon and Singapore, will increase own range to the continent American installing itself in the heart of the main crocieristico market of the region: the Caribbean.
The company of Istanbul has in fact undersigned an agreement for the management of the crocieristiche activities in the port de the Havana, to Cuba, one of the emerged destinations of the region above all after in the 2015 American government, under the administration of Barack Obama, it had authorized the ships of the group Carnival Corporation, world leader of the cruises, to call at the Caribbean island.
Global Holding Ports has signed an appropriate contract of concession of the duration 15-year-old with the Cuban Aries S.A. That june will have beginning from next the 21. The agreement previews that the satisfied Turkish society a canon whose amount is correlated to the number of passengers who will be enlivened in port, with incentives in order to promote the increase of the crocieristico traffic. Moreover GPH has been engaged to collaborate to a plan of investments in order to upgrade the segment of the cruises in the Cuban port, than currently it is limited to the availability of two docks, included the planning of a new terminal cruises.
Last year the crocieristico traffic in the port of the Havana has been of 328 thousand fleeting, with an increment of +156% on 2016. In 2018 a traffic of 500 thousand is attended crocieristi. The development plans of the port preview to assign six docks to the crocieristico traffic within 2024.
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