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Passenger & Shipping Company Institute in June presented the results of the study will draw on our port characteristics and requirements necessary to become home port, a goal that could be achieved within seven years

Jay Lewis, consultant Passenger & Shipping Company Institute, has released today the parameters of the feasibility study to be performed, commissioned by the Port Authority for the port of Cartagena can be Puerto Home, ie point Startup cruise itinerary.

It was first presented to the municipal and regional authorities, as well as port-related businesses and the tourism sector.

Then, accompanied by the president of the Port Authority, Adrian à ngel Viudes, and the Councillor for Tourism, Palazón Carolina, Lewis explained to the media which is the methodology of their study, in which researchers will work three and a team administrative, which costs 50,000 euros and whose fruits will be announced in June.

This study reflects the strengths of our city to become home port, as well as those that need improvement and that, after a process of consolidation as port scale, within seven years, could make possible for shippers and companies cruise, choosing Cartagena as a starting point in your travels.

As an example, Jay Lewis highlights Marseille, which has gone in ten years, from a loading port to be cruise port, establishing itself as the first port of call, where the ship will pass and tourists spend only a few hours, to reach finally the category of home port, where passengers embark and disembark.

This, according to Lewis, tourist infrastructure is needed, both hotel rooms and tourist attractions Roman theater style, and above all, air links with major cities such as Madrid and Barcelona, ​​which will play an important role in the commissioning Corvera airport.

In this sense, the chairman of the Port Authority emphasized the need to expand the space in front of the port, the terminal of Santa Lucia, where container and is free to pass these Gorguel, is the ideal place for the arrival cruise.

In addition, also considered important Viudes do come to embark desirable Cartagena.

This is the way that, as explained Palazón Carolina, City Council must travel together, and Autonomous Port, work together for attaining an attractive city for tourism, a task to be carried out coordinated and unhurried, not be overwhelmed with outlining horizon 2020 as to become home port.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena