Pugliawith 106 total stopovers and 280 thousand passengers in total between Bari and Brindisiis confirmed as a strategic region for 2024 MSC Cruises. At the port of Bari there are 73 scheduled calls for more than 200 thousand cruise passengers, in Brindisi there will be 33 calls. Armonia ship arrived on the morning of Sunday 12 May in Bari. It is one of the protagonists of the record year for the company which, for the first time, has planned weekly cruises departing from the Apulian capital also during the winter season. A real novelty since arrivals will no longer be limited to the classic summer period, but will see the arrival of cruise passengers every week for 12 months of the year, with the consequent growth of the economic and employment related industries which will benefit the whole territory also in low season periods.
Will be Msc Sinfonia to set sail in the winter every Sunday discovering the eastern Mediterranean, arriving as far as Istanbul. «Today is a historic day for MSC Cruises – he comments Beppe Lupelli, area manager of the company – because we are inaugurating a cruise season in Bari that will not end at the end of the summer, but will continue for 12 months of the year. A new step towards the deseasonalization of holidays in the Mediterranean, with an unmissable new winter itinerary that from Bari will take guests every week to the eastern side of the Mare Nostrum up to Istanbul”. The manager added that MSC is sure that «our choice will contribute to giving an important boost to winter tourism throughout the territory, as has already happened in other cities overlooking the Tyrrhenian side».
In addition to MSC Armonia they will also arrive in Bari in the next few weeks MSC Opera and MSC Splendida who will propose weekly itineraries to discover the most evocative destinations in the eastern Mediterranean. At the end of the summer season, the 3 units will give way to MSC Sinfonia which will sail from Bari throughout the winter every Saturday towards Greece and Türkiye, with stops in Katakolon (Olympia), Athens, KusadasiIstanbul and then return to the Adriatic first in Trieste and then to Bari the following Sunday ready to repeat the itinerary with new guests on board. «MSC consolidates and strengthens its presence in Bari and Brindisi – he underlines the general secretary of the Southern Adriatic Sea Port System Authority, Tito Vespasiani – and this makes us proud and encourages us to continue the infrastructure work of our ports, to make them increasingly more efficient and futuristic”.
