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World’s Fifth Largest Cruise Ship Pays Return Visit to Cobh
by SEAMUS WHELEHAN
The biggest cruise ship
to call to Cork returned to Cobh on Monday 27 Au- gust shortly after 5:30am. ‘MSC
Meravigilia’, the
World’s fifth largest cruise liner, has a capacity of 5,700 guests which is al- most half the population of Cobh. The vessel, at 1,033ft long and 213ft tall, was the fourth largest in the world until April when the Royal Caribbean launched their larger ‘Symphony of the Seas’.
The 19 deck
‘MSC Meravigilia’ with a gross tonnage of 167,600 tonnes was on an 11 day cruise from Hamburg vis- iting Cobh, Dublin, Scot- land and Southampton. Since the liner’s first trip
to Cobh in May, it has spent most of the summer sailing
through World Tourism Award last Norwe-
gian Fjords, and will now spend most of the autumn cruising the Mediterrane- an. An estimated 180,000 visitors and 80,000 crew will have passed through the Cobh Cruise termi- nal when the last Cruise will arrive on 20 Decem- ber. The figure is a 30% increase on last season’s number of passengers. The ‘MSC Meravigilia’
was the second cruise lin- er to visit Cork Harbour on Monday with the ‘Saga Pearl
II’ docking at Rin-
gaskiddy shortly before 7:00am carrying 602 pas- sengers on board. Hendrick Verwey (Cobh
Tourism) says the Har- bour’s increased populari- ty, following Spike Island’s
• The Cobh Heritage Centre is dwarfed by the MSC Meraviglia the flagship of MSC Cruises which docked in Cobh on Monday last Photo Denis O Flynn.
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year, shows there is a need
for a second cruise termi- nal in Cobh. Mr Verwey said while the liner season is extending to nearly a full year, high season can be crowded with a number of vessels looking to call at the one time. “During the summer season you could have a number of liners looking to dock. Like today with blue skies and plenty on offer, passengers in Cobh have the better deal
than those in Ringaskid- dy” he said. Port
calls have
17 been
growing fast, up from 60,000 in 2012 to 91,000 in 2016. The strength of Cobh’s cruise tourist influx seems to be paying off for
local businesses.
Throughout the day on Monday, cruise passengers were spotted heading to Spike Island, the Queen- stown story, the Titanic
experience and St Col- man’s Cathedral, while also shopping locally and enjoying the carnival ex- perience in Cobh. In 2015 the Port of Cork
invested €1.5million in the Cobh Cruise Terminal, and expect to develop a second berth at the Deep- water Quay capable facilitating
of an additional
50,000 passengers per an- num from 2020 onwards.
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