Museums, monuments, shops and bars, anything left out of the 4000 cruise itinerary, most Americans, who have come to Cartagena aboard the Independence of the Seas, which at 339 meters long, is the largest cruise ship makes Mediterranean routes currently, and for the first time, has been at our city.
This has filled people throughout the morning, the city center, giving life to the service sector and redound this in the local economy, something that he welcomed the Mayor, Pilar Barreiro, who claimed that this is the result the work of several years to make Cartagena one important tourist destination city, and opening to the sea allows us to go on this line.
For the mayor, visit the Independence of the Seas is significant, but it is not an isolated incident as they arrive throughout the year 140,000 cruise tourists in Cartagena, we are pleased to have done a good job for the city be attractive to shipping companies and their customers.
The Independence of the Seas, which will return to the city in September, is in a class called Freedom, which also are the Freedom of the Seas and Liberty of the Seas, already twice visited Cartagena last year.
During the first five months of the year and there have been 34 calls in the port of Cartagena, with a total of 31,800 passengers, and when finished June 42 scales will be achieved as the two that occurred Sunday and today Monday, a scale must be added twice scheduled for Friday, June 28, the Wind Surf Cruises and Thomson Dream, which is a record.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena