Med ports told to improve their act

Leading cruise industry personnel at last week’s MedCruise general assembly in Cartagena, Spain called for Mediterranean cruise ports to improve their act if they wanted to receive the latest generation of large modern vessels. A number of cruise line executives highlighted the fact the a number of ports are not growing their infrastructure in line with cruise lines investment in new tonnage. Costa’s port operations manager Elisabetta de Nardo singled out the lack of dedicated cruise berths at many Med ports and limited long term investment plans for cruise infrastructure. MSC Cruises’ Port Captain Luigi Pasterna was also critical of many Med ports, while AIDA’s Kay-Uwe Maross said that Med ports needed to develop a reliable long term berth reservation system, as the first-come, first-served system was simply not acceptable anymore. Sphere: Related Content