Aida Cruises will call three times this month, consolidating as the line with the most calls this year with a total of 30
Today at the Cruise Terminal, Cartagena will receive the first ship of six that will arrive in Cartagena in December with more than 6,500 passengers, consolidating us as a winterless port with ship visits every month of the year.
Early in the morning, the ship Aidastella, of the shipping company Aida, with 1,300 passengers, mainly German nationals, called at a cruise ship that will call at the port of Cartagena twice more, on December 14 and 22. The shipping company Aida was one of the first shipping companies to call on the port of Cartagena for its disembarkation in Spain after the reactivation of cruise tourism suspended due to the pandemic and this year it has made a strong commitment to us with 30 stopovers that made all year round. .
The next visit is December 10 with the Norwegian Gem cruise, the first call of this Norwegian Cruises Line company ship in Cartagena and joins the 26 new ships that have chosen the port of Cartagena to visit for the first time this year 2022 .
In addition, the ships Queen Victoria and Amadea will arrive in Cartagena on December 17 and 18 this month.
Cruise tourism continues to break records in Cartagena. We were one of the first Spanish ports to receive cruise ships after activity was suspended due to the pandemic and we are one of the few ports in the Mediterranean to receive five passenger ships on the same stopover.
Closure forecasts for 2022 exceed 175,000 passengers on 180 ships, in a year when loopholes from the pandemic have resulted in ships reaching 60% occupancy.
Source: La Verdad
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