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Honored Shipping it plans a widening of own activity in the Baltic Sea
Possible employment of a second ship, that it would be used on routes between the port of Pionersky in the exclave Russian of Kaliningrad, and Saint Petersburg or a German port
April 5, 2019
The Honored group Shipping has announced a next increment of own activity in the Baltic Sea, with operations that currently are carried out with the brand Moby SPL Ltd. participated to 51% from the Italian shipowning group through the society integrally controlled Moby who is constituted in 2016 as a result of a which signed agreement two years and means makes with the Russian company St Peter Line ( on 29 September 2016). Currently Moby, in collaboration with its Russian partner ( on 1° December 2016), work the ship Princess Anastasia for which a new offer of services is planned produced new and, between which the destination almost an entire bridge ship to a supermarket that allows, in particular to Russian the Scandinavian customers but especially, to acquire directly produced of quality in regime duty free, placing the purchases in the area baggage of their boarded cars in the garage of the ship.
"I believe that the experience matured in the Baltic Sea with the Princess Anastasia - has explained Alessandro Onorato, vice-president of the group and responsible marketing - has confirmed our intuition about the existence of great areas of shadow where to develop crocieristico tourism with completely different targets, modalities and routes from those of the large ones cruise operators. A experience that shortly will allow with our group launch new initiatives in this field".
The new planned formula in order to develop the activity in this market, under the slogan "Island of the made in Italy in the Baltic Sea", currently it is got ahead by Prince Anastasia with cruises weeklies magazine on the route Saint Petersburg, Tallin, Stockholm, Helsinki, Saint Petersburg with some touched in the course of the year to Line. But Honored Shipping it has specified that the perspective shortly is "of a potenziamento of the service also through the insertion of a second unit with these characteristics and of the possibility to put into effect forms of partnership with other companies of navigation".
Second ship that the managing director of Moby SPL, Sergei Kotenev, has explained to the Russian daily paper "Kommersant" could be employed in order to activate a regular service for the transport of passengers and motor vehicles from and for the port of Russian Pionersky in the exclave of Kaliningrad, being connected it or with Saint Petersburg or with a German port. Al Russian newspaper Alessandro Onorato has specified that the eventual employment of a second ship in the Baltic Sea will be decided the next autumn.
The Honored group Shipping, in the picture of its campaign turns to the employment of marine Italians on the ships of the fleet, has specified that also the marine Russians who on board work of the ship used in the Baltic Sea, that are employed "in order to guarantee to the customers a maximum fruibilità of the produced cruise being spoken the domestic language, are engaged with contract and Italian salary. Contract - has specified group - that it previews emolument talora also quadruples regarding those which the marine Russians succeed to obtain medium on the ships, also Italian, on the several routes of fleeting the world-wide interchange and the market".
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