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Marseille eyeing growth after a slight dip last yearMarseille eyeing growth after a slight dip last year

With some 1,488,000 cruise passengers recorded in 2017, a 7% decrease compared to 1.6m in 2016, activity at France’s leading cruise port of Marseille declined slighty due mainly to the closure of CDF Croisières de France and the repositioning of some US-owned capacity to Northern Europe and Asia.

Michèle Valandina, French correspondent

February 21, 2018

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Growth is however set to resume this year, according to the Marseille Fos Port authorities which says 530 cruise calls are already scheduled in 2018, up from the 430 in 2017.

Callers this year include Royal Caribbean International’s Symphony of the Seas making a Med debut, MSC Seaview, Ponant’s expedition-style luxury ships Le Champlain and Le Laperouse and Viking Ocean Cruises’ Viking Orion.

More details, statistics and news will be unveiled at the next Top Cruise trade event organized by the Club de la Croisière Marseille Provence on March 28 and 29.  

 

About the Author

Michèle Valandina

French correspondent

A graduate from Lyon University, where she specialised in foreign languages and American literature, Michèle worked as an interpreter/translator (English, German and Italian) for major international events before entering the diplomatic world for a few years. As a Paris-based freelance travel and lifestyle writer, she has been a contributor to a host of publications and has long specialised in two sectors: cruising and wellness. Her features have appeared in, among others, Le Monde, Le Figaro, Le Figaro Magazine, Les Echos Week-end and periodicals dedicated to the MICE sector. She has also featured on radio and TV travel programmes and, since 1992, has been the author of the only French cruise guide, Croisières Passion.

 

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