Vice President of Norwegian Cruise Line visiting Panama

He Vice President of Services Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd., toured the facilities of the Panama Cruise Terminal, together with the Director General of Ports and Auxiliary Maritime Industries (DGPIMA) of the Maritime Authority of Panama (AMP), Flore Pitty, and the General Manager of Panama Tourism of Panama (ATP), Ivan Eskildsen.

This important mega job currently has a progress of 90% and towards projections would be 100% between the months of November and December this year.

Contractor Pacific Cruise Consortiumwhich consists of the Belgian company Jan de Nul and the China Harbor Engineering Company (CHEC), promised that the passenger facilities will be ready by October this year, which will give us the possibility of receiving more passengers.

This project is one of the most modern in the world Central Americawhich is also the only one of its kind, has a navigation depth between 11.3 and 12.3 meters, which will enable safe navigation of ships since they need about 9.3 meters to dock.

Vice President of Norwegian cruise servicesexpressed his great satisfaction with the good progress recorded by the works and reaffirmed his support for Panama, indicating that they are interested in bringing in larger cruise ships with a capacity of more than 4,000 passengers, once the contractor completes passenger-related adjustments.

He General Manager of the Tourism Authority of Panama (ATP)Iván Eskildsen noted that Norwegian Cruise Line will continue to have Panama as one of its fixed ports and will maintain operations with departures for sale until December 2024.

During this month, they arrived in our country via Panama and Colon 2000 cruise terminalabout 12,857 domestic and foreign tourists as part of the 2022-2023 cruise season, an activity that stimulates the national economy.

Besides that National Government by Executive Order 8 of March 9, 2023it created incentives for shipping companies.