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This year's season of passenger ships at the Port of Gdynia will start on 9 May and will last until 19 October. In 2018, the Port of Gdynia will host 54 cruise ships. The season will begin with the visit of MS "MSC Orchestra".
Polish ports are increasingly being visited by cruise ships. To promote the country and region, the ports of the Tricity jointly participated in Seatrade Cruise Global Miami.
Visits of passenger ships at the Port of Gdynia are a tradition and at the same time a great prestige to the port. The visits of the “cruising hotels” bring significant benefits not only to Gdynia’s port and the city itself, but also to entire Pomerania Region.
On 6 September this year, the call of m/v Costa Pacifica will end this year’s passenger ship season, inaugurated on 14 May this year by m/v MSC Magnifica.
12:00 on 10 August of this year will be the starting time for the ceremony of embedding of a commemorative plaque at the only Passenger Ships Ally in Poland, located at the Pomeranian Quay at the Port of Gdynia.
The visit of Norwegian Getaway, the largest cruise ship to ever drop anchor in any of Poland's ports, was topped off with an official exchange of badges, which that took place on the bridge between the ship's captain, Roger Gustavsen, and the Vice-President of PGA SA, Piotr Nowak.
The grand prologue to the Sea Days festivities in Gdynia will include a visit to the Port of Gdynia by m/v Norwegian Getaway, the largest and the longest cruise ship to have ever berthed in a Polish port.
MV AIDAdiva, which today in the morning (that is the 17th of May) docked at the Port of Gdynia, is the first of the newest generation of Aida Cruises ships.
MV "Aurora" - a passenger vessel owned by Carnival Plc (Carnival UK) - is another cruise ship arriving at the Port of Gdynia tomorrow morning (on the 16th of May). MV "Aurora" was built in the Meyer Werft yard in Germany. MV "Aurora" is P&O Cruises' fifth largest cruise ship and was put into operation in April 2000.
