PORT NEWS
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PORTSMOUTH’S YEAR
PORTSMOUTH has completed the grand opening of its new passenger terminal, part of a £16.5million investment in new facilities that plans to put the south coast port firmly on the cruise map. The new terminal replaces a building that opened in the 1970s. In a carefully planned procedure, operations between old and new were switched at midnight, and three ships of the All Leisure Group will call it ‘home’ this year, along with vessels from Fred. Olsen, Classic International Cruises, Silversea and Hurtigruten. It will accommodate the port’s
musical star Marti Webb, who wrote the book’s foreword, called this collection of cruise anecdotes “sometimes touching, often very funny, but always highly entertaining.” Although I have an understand- able quantity of nostalgia for the “old days,” I still relish every opportunity to embrace the new ideas and challenges today’s world of cruising presents. Over the years, I have performed as one half of the successful international singing and dancing duo “Glading and Allan;” I have played classical piano recitals before some of the best-known stars and aristocrats of their time; I have served as Head of Entertainment and production show producer for some of the largest cruise lines
around today, but it is as Cruise Director that I have spent the most enjoyable and satisfying years of my career in cruising. I also look forward to my next assignment on
NCL’s Norwegian Jade this summer as we will be sailing out of Venice, Italy, one of the most glorious ports of the planets. I am proud to have been so intricately involved
in such an exciting business all these years, but I am also passionate about its future and am delighted to think that I’ll continue to be intimately involved in it for many years to come. Why don’t you join me?
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growing cruise business as well as existing ferry operators and provides a comfortable and stylish start to the holiday. Inside, there is a full-height concourse and mezzanine bar/café with an observation balcony. Facilities include plentiful seating, a shop for travel essentials and souvenirs, a bureau de change and Costa coffee. Opened three weeks ahead of schedule, it is designed to be light and spacious. It reduces its environmental impact through revolutionary pumps that take heat from the sea and a cooling system that uses ‘wind catchers’ on the roof for heat and ventilation. More info:
www.portsmouth-port.co.uk.
MAN, OMAN
Oman’s port business is expecting record passenger numbers through June 2011, with arrivals at PORT SULTAN QABOOS jumping to 231,100, a massive 72 per cent higher than 2009/10. Salem Al Mamari, director general of tourism promotion at Oman’s Ministry of Tourism said: “The results are very pleasing, especially considering passenger arrivals in 2007 were just 44,885. “We are seeing welcome recogni-
tion of Oman as a preferred cruise destination. More companies are including Muscat on itineraries. The other welcome trend is the decision by a number of companies to deploy their larger vessels to our region.” More info:
www.omantourism.gov.om.
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