Welcome to this month’s Dart Habour bulletin
Rob Giles, Harbourmaster
DART HARBOUR’S FORWARD VISION REPORT RELEASED Dart Harbour’s ten year Forward
Vision report has been unveiled following months of public consultation. The Forward Vision project is being run by the harbour authority in conjunction with the Centre for Marine and Coastal Policy Research at Plymouth University with the results shaping Dart Harbour’s strategy for future management of the river. The report identifies and assesses
local, national and international trends likely to affect the planning and management of the Dart estuary over the next ten years and identifies five key priorities; partnership working, environment, branding, management and infrastructure. “Further to the publication of the
report, we’re now currently working on the action plan which we hope to have finalised by the end of the
summer,” explained Dart Harbour board member and co-ordinator of the project, John Ellwood. “Dart Harbour would like to thank everyone who put forward suggestions, all of which have been considered and collated. “We are already implementing some of the points raised in the report and will be able to present our progress at the Dart Harbour Annual General Meeting at the end of the year, with a view to implementation in 2016. “We were extremely pleased with
the level of responses we received from river users and those with an interest in the river. “An enormous amount of work
has gone into producing the report and I’d like to thank everyone at the Centre for Marine and Coastal Policy Research at Plymouth University who has worked on the report.”
CRUISE SHIPS Dart Harbour has three cruise ships booked in for the 2015 season, with the first, MV Amadea due to arrive on 5 May. The vessel is owned by the Amadea
Shipping Company and managed under charter by the Phoenix Reisen company. Holding up to 600 passengers, the 193m the vessel will be arriving from Cork in Ireland. She will be followed by the 140m MV Berlin on 4 June which will visit Dartmouth from 7am to 1pm and the 80m MV Hebridean Princess on 21
July from 12noon to 7pm. Dart Harbour is working strenuously to market the port to generate more cruise ship visits with several marketing events attended over the winter months including the world leading cruise ship convention in the USA. Dart Harbour is working with the
town’s BID, Dartmouth Town Council and Tourist Information Centre to develop strategies to attract more ships to the town and make the ships’ passengers feel welcome in Dartmouth.
CRUISE SHIPPING MIAMI
Cruise Ship Miami is the only cruise industry venue where ports can attend to sell themselves to cruise line reps and was attended this year by the Harbourmaster and Harbour Authority board member Tricia Daniels.
Around 800 ports had stands at the event with Dart Harbour able to take advantage of a low cost stall, representing Dartmouth and the other ports making up the Destination South West alliance. “Nothing happens by chance at
Miami, endless information was sent before the event to cruise companies in order to lure their representatives onto our stand,” said Mrs Daniels. “We spent three long days in our booth and were extremely pleased with the contacts we made and the discussions we had with cruise companies. “We saw more lines that we could have hoped for and the Harbourmaster was able to give technical information about conditions in our harbour, information which cruise planners all seek, over and above the actual venue.” Harbourmaster Capt Rob Giles
added: “We will have no idea the breadth of our actual success
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