MSC Cruisesthe third largest cruise company in the world by number of passengers, has announced that it will transport more than 100,000 cruise passengers to the Port of Malaga this summer, as well as some 84,000 tourists to the Port of Cádiz.
The general director of MSC Cruises in Spain, Fernando Pacheco, has announced in a virtual press conference that the shipping company will make more than 500 stopovers in Spain in 2023, which means more than two million tourists. Of all of them, 384 will take place in summer on itineraries operated by more than 20 ships that will pass through 140 destinations and 40 countries.
For example, the Malaga enclave will receive a total of 39 calls, 26 with passenger embarkation and disembarkation, figures that place the shipping company as the company with the largest operations in port facilities.
The president of the Malaga Port Authority, Carlos Rubio Basabe, has expressed his satisfaction at the close relationship between MSC Cruises and the port of Malaga. “Last year we started with a series of stopovers and this year’s goal is to strengthen this collaboration by increasing the number of stopovers from 29 to 39,” says Basabe.
As for the Cádiz enclave, it will host 21 stopovers during the summer. Teófila Martínez, president of the Port Authority of the Bay of Cádiz, expressed her gratitude to MSC Cruises “for their interest and commitment.”
“We want to continue being important for MSC Cruises and, for this reason, we have worked to be a port with the best services and the best attention. In this sense, I also want to thank MSC for the effort and investment it is making in environmental matters. An effort in line with our objective that next year the docks of the port of the Bay of Cádiz may have connections to electricity”, explains Martínez.
