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CSA welcomes European cruise line to Caribbean service
CSA welcomes European
cruise line to Caribbean service
mss "Holiday Dream"
makes inaugural call in Jamaica
2004, December 16: Pullmantur Cruises MSS
Holiday Dream, with its 408 crew members and 687 passengers, made its
inaugural call on Jamaica on December 1, docking at the Montego Bay Cruise Pier.
The visit of the Spanish vessel followed two
years of dialogue between Jamaican cruise shipping stakeholders and their
overseas counterparts.
 The
vessel has committed to making weekly calls in the resort city until 2008 and
will be semi-home porting at the local pier. The vessel will call all year round
and purchase some of our local produce.
The Caribbean Shipping
Association was represented at the ceremonies to welcome the new cruise line.
General Manager, Stephen Bell, made a presentation to Captain is Mirko Vranicic
on Board the Vessel.
Mr. Bell, in welcoming the cruise line to the
Caribbean, commented that on his travels throughout the region he had seen
Pullmantur Cruises ships. He congratulated them on their increased service and
commitment to the Region.
On the European continent the two fastest nations
growing in cruise shipping are the Germans and the Spanish. Jamaica successfully
landed home-port from the German the Aida Cruises, four years ago.
The Caribbean Shipping Association has started
the process of encouraging and facilitating where possible the growth and
expansion of cruise shipping in the Region. In this regard
the Association has established a Standing Cruise Committee. The
Committee which was launched in May 2004 at the CSA's Third Caribbean Shipping
Executives Conference in Castries, St. Lucia. It had its inaugural working
session on October 17, 2004 at the 34th Annual General Meeting of the CSA in Cartegena de Indias, Colombia,
chaired by Jan Seirhuis of Curaçao.
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