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A record day for Shanghai’s Wusongkou terminal

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Three ships alongside Shanghai Wusongkou International Cruise Terminal
Shanghai Wusongkou International Cruise Terminal, mainland China’s busiest cruise port, set a new record with a total 26,000 cruise passengers either disembarking or embarking in one day.

The milestone, recorded this Tuesday, was due to the simultaneous arrival and departures by three ships: Royal Caribbean International’s Quantum of the Seas, Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Joy and Costa Cruises’ Costa Serena.

It is the first time this year that Shanghai Wusongkou cruise terminal had three ships berthed alongside on the same day. Last July the terminal also hosted three cruiseships simultaneously.

Fast growing Wusongkou

Shanghai Wusongkou cruise terminal has retained the crown of Asia’s busiest cruise port for the past three consecutive years.

The terminal handled over 2,000 voyages and 13m passengers in 2018.

Officially opened in October 2011, Wusongkou welcomed its first two simultaneous cruise ship calls in 2012, when Voyager of the Seas and Costa Victoria saw 15,000 passengers passing through the port.

Shanghai Wusongkou currently has four berths for large cruise ships and a new passenger terminal, which opened in summer 2018, has greatly improved handling capacity and embarkation/disembarkation traffic flows.