New terminal cruises for group MSC in the port of Miami



MSC Cruises will be able to arrange of a new terminal cruises in the port of Miami in a position to accommodating also the future ships of class "Class World" of which the company it has ordered the construction, that they will have a advanced tonnage to 200.000 tons and an ability to beyond 7.000 passengers, besides the already operating ships of the company in the Caribbean.

It previews a which signed not binding memorandum of understanding from the Miami-Dade County and from MSC Cruises that it previews the financing, the construction and I use it of the new Cruise Terminal AAA and the engagement by the crocieristica company to increase the number of passengers carried from own ships in the port of Florida, that it is the first world-wide crocieristico port of call for traffic volume. In particular, MSC Cruises, than currently within agreements already which signed with the local government of Miami - that they establish among other things approaches preferential for the ships of the company - is engages to annually carry in the port American a minim of 425 thousand fleeting in every fiscal year, with the new understanding has been engaged to carry some annually at least 650 thousand.

"This important project, joined to the new agreement that extends the preferential rights of landing place of the company to PortMiami from the saturday also to Sunday - has explained Pierfrancesco Vago, MSC executive chairman Cruises - an ulterior and fundamental step in the increase of the MSC business represents ahead Cruises, in the optical to strengthen our total presence with a centralized strategic approach on the market of the America North".

"The investment in infrastructures of Port-Miami - the mayor of the county of Miami-Dade has declared, Carlos A. Gimenez - returns the county of Miami-Dade a total destination for the visitors. The construction of a new terminal cruises in triple To with the ability to make to moor another cruise ship from 7.000 passengers is translate in thousands of places of work and puts up opportunity for our community. We are pleasing for the extension of partnership with MSC the Cruises". "The continuation of partnership with MSC the Cruises - it has emphasized Rebeca Sosa, president of the commission for the economic development and tourism of the county of Miami-Dade - is a great victory for the increase and the expansion of tourism in our county".

Currently MSC Cruises is present to Miami with the ship MSC Seaside that at a time sails all the year from the American port of the Caribbean, while ship MSC Divina navigates instead to the Caribbean in the winter season (from October to March). To these Harmony will join to MSC that the next December will reach Miami beginning from in order to make broken on Cuba all the year. Moreover from November 2019 MSC Wonder, the larger ship of the company with beyond 170.000 tons of tonnage and in a position to accommodating almost 6,000 passengers, will join to the other ships based to PortMiami carrying so to four the units of the MSC fleet Cruises employed in the Caribbean.

"The cruise - it has observed Leonardo Massa, country MSC manager Cruises - is being asserted as formula of more and more cross-sectional travel, to organize anytime of the year, in any part of the globe and particularly apt for who it wants to discover always new places. In this optical, Miami is one of the destinations on which we intend to carry more and more Italian because, besides being one of the more famous cities to the world and the world-wide Capital of the cruises, it is also the ideal place in order to bind together in an only unforgettable vacation a cruise MSC in the Caribbean and a travel to earth to the discovery of the United States. He is natural therefore for MSC Cruises to equip itself of an own terminal to Miami that totally offers services online with those which our crocieristi find on board of our ships".

The memorandum of understanding undersigned from the Miami-Dade County and MSC Cruises includes also regarding clauses the traffic of the goods. The group Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), of which MSC takes part Cruises, is in fact the only customer of the port of Miami to carry in the port of call of Florida is passengers who goods and the new understanding which signed from the part include incentives so that the Helvetic shipowning group increases own volume of containerized trade enlivened in the American port.