Seven Cruisers Will Arrive To Iquique

Date: 2012/10/01

On November 6 begins a new season of cruisers in the country, which will run until mid-April 2012. As recorded arrivals increased 25 percent in 2011, the period of visiting announce intense movement, which is still pending further promotion in Iquique, unlike Puerto Montt, Punta Arenas and Valparaiso, which will receive 51, 47 and 39 calls, the capital of Tarapacá only have 7 arrivals.

The president of the Southern Cone Ports Corporation, Sebastian Montero, said that arrivals of cruisers in Iquique port will be opened on 12 November with a ship Le Boreal, and conclude on March 17 with the Hanseatic.

In Arica, the arrival of Seabourn Sojourn on November 15 will open visiting season, which will end on 03 March with the arrival of Celebrity Infinity. For this city will call, a total of five cruisers.

Antofagasta, while receive three ships, whose arrival will be from January 26, with the Seven Seas Marine, the 28th of the same month with the Regatta, and February 04 in Hamburg.

Montero remembered last year when the law was passed authorizing the operation of gambling casinos on cruisers, noting that the effects of the measure will be reflected in two or three years, since the sector plan ahead their schedules.

He stressed that, according to international studies, the average cost of a cruiser passenger is $ 97 per day, generating revenue across the value chain associated with that activity.

Source: MundoMaritimo