The Government has finalised the cruise ship calendar for 2023 and 2024 with the shipping companies. This means that no more than three ships will be able to coincide in the port of Palma, with no exceptional days, as has been the case until now
The Councillor for Economic Model, Tourism and Employment, Iago Negueruela, attended the opening day of the 2nd European Summit of the CLIA cruise employers’ association. This summit brings together the main companies in the sector and is taking place these days in Paris with the main players in the sector, both public and private, as protagonists.
During the day, Negueruela, accompanied by the Director General of Tourism, Isabel Vidal, held meetings with the Spanish Director of CLIA, Alfredo Serrano, as well as with European and world leaders of the association, such as Kelly Craighead, President and CEO, and Marie Caroline Laurent, Director General for Europe.
At the same time, the minister also met with representatives of some of the most important shipping companies that operate in the Balearic Islands and which signed the agreement last year. They are Gianni Onorato, from MSC Cruises, Spyro Almpertis, from Crystal Cruises, and Mario Zanetti, president of Costa Cruises, among others, with the aim of working and advancing in the planning of the next cruise seasons in the port of Palma.
The Government has met with representatives of some of the most important shipping companies that operate in the Balearic Islands.
There will no longer be days with exceptions
As a result of these meetings, the sector has conveyed to the Balearic delegation its commitment to continue fulfilling the agreement reached last year in Palma.
In this way, both parties -Govern and sector- have closed 100% of the calendar for 2023, a year in which there will no longer be exceptional days, as was the case in 2022. With a view to 2024, and following the meetings held in Paris at the CLIA convention, the necessary changes have also been agreed with the shipping companies for the four days on which more ships than agreed coincided and which had yet to be agreed for that year.
In the coming weeks, these changes will be formalised with the shipping companies so that they can become effective, which means that from this year onwards, the agreement will be complied with in all its terms for the next two years and the maximum number of cruises per day agreed will no longer be exceeded.
After the meeting, both the Government and the cruise companies once again stressed the importance of the collaboration agreement signed in May last year. This has made it possible to organise arrivals in the port of Palma.
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