MSC Cruises celebrates call number 100 of MSC Preziosa in Palma de Mallorca Port
Palma de Mallorca
07/10/2015
MSC Cruises celebrates call number 100 this season in Palma with MSC Preziosa cruise’s arrival. A ship call is done every Wednesday with the cruise ship coming from Cagliari (Italy). MSC Cruises will break the record of ship calls in Palma de Mallorca Port done with the same company and in the same season, surpassing 120 visits. Joan Gual de Torrella, president of Balearic Island’s Port Authority (APB), celebrated the continuity and reliance of the Italian shipping line who “is demonstrating the satisfaction caused by the fact of having a destination such as Balearic Islands for their customers”. As for Emiliano González, General Manager of MSC Cruises, declared “Celebrating our call number 100 in Palma de Mallorca is a matter of pride and reflects the interest of MSC Cruises in Mallorca Island and Mediterranean, where our ship cruises sail the whole year. Palma de Mallorca has been consolidated as one of the most appreciated destination by our customers in Western Mediterranean Sea”. MSC Cruises commitment with Balearic Islands’ capital is reflected by the fact that within the whole year 2015, nine of the twelve ship cruises will call in Palma de Mallorca -MSC Splendida, MSC Prezio-sa, MSC Magnifica, MSC Sinfonia, MSC Armonia, MSC Fantasia, MSC Musica, MSC Divina y MSC Opera. MSC Preziosa, with a displacement of 139.072 tons, was built in 2013 and is 333 m length, with a capacity up to 3.502 passengers and 1.388 staff on board. Average speed is 18kn. This flagship has won the “Best Mediterranean Ship Cruise” prize, given by “Premios Excellence de Cruceros” in a ceremony in Palma de Mallorca last March 2015. MSC Cruises is characterised by the huge invest in quality services. Its Palma de Mallorca stop-over is part of a Mediterranean eight-days-route with calls in Valencia, Marseilles, Genoa and Civitavecchia. Shipping agent is Trascoma Baleares, member of Verlio Group.
