7 cruise ships in Palma’s port
Palma de Mallorca
23/09/2015
It is not the first time seven cruise ships coincide in Palma’s port, although it is the first time this match exceeds the number of cruise passengers’. Aida Aura, Aida Blu, Costa Diadema, Island Escape, Mein Schiff 2, MSC Divina and Ryndam, were in Palma port last Tuesday, October 22th 2015, adding up all together 23.200 passengers. First four cruise ships of the list uses Palma port as a port base this season. Economic impact of these visits is very important. Cruise tourists’ expenses are considerably higher than average expenses of the average tourist. Balearic Islands Port Authority (APB) is investing in better infrastructures to be able to attend this maritime traffic, promoting big improvements in port services, thus applying important economic incentives. The aim is to strengthen Balearic Islands as tourist destination. The arrival of cruise tourism is particularly evident in the city centre, although more and more cruise tourists visit other municipalities of the islands with the added provided economic benefit. And also from a port perspective, operations to attend to all these tourists is huge. Mooring services, ship owners, shipping agents, harbourmaster tasks, waste collection, tourist guides, passenger security services, among many others, or even tug boats, depending on cruise ships size and weather conditions, are activated in Balearic Islands’ ports.
