The Port will host the visit of two luxury cruise ships in October
The Hanseatic Nature and the Spirit of Adventure will dock in Santander on October 7 and 15, respectively, with about 1000 cruise passengers on board.
The president of the Port Authority has pointed out that the arrival of these ships is "a symptom" of the recovery of cruise tourism.
Santander 01-10-21. The port of Santander will receive next October 7 and 15 the visit of two new cruise ships: the "Hanseatic Nature" and the "Spirit of Adventure", respectively. Both ships, considered luxury, will remain in the port facilities for about ten hours.
For the president of the Port Authority of Santander (APS), Francisco Martin, this is "a symptom" of the recovery of cruise tourism, "an industry of high purchasing power" that contributes "to the deseasonalization of tourism".
Martín has assured that the APS "will continue working to recover and even surpass the cruise traffic prior to the pandemic" and has highlighted "the joint work" of the different administrations every time a stopover takes place.
In this regard, the Minister of Industry, Tourism, Innovation, Transport and Trade, Javier López Marcano, has highlighted "the alliance" formed by the APS, the Government of Cantabria and the City of Santander, under the brand Santander Cruise Deluxe, aims to "promote this type of traffic making Santander a port of reference for cruise ships on the northern coast of the Iberian Peninsula".
Marcano has highlighted "the effort" that is being made "to try to capture a good part of the approximately 200 annual cruises that sail through the Bay of Biscay, mostly with origin or destination in the port of Southampton, southwest of London".
Hanseatic Nature
This ship, consigned by Marmetsa and owned by the shipping company Hapag Lloyd, will visit Santander next October 7 with 170 passengers and 166 crew members on board.
The cruise ship, built in 2019, will enter the port at eight o'clock in the morning, coming from De Guernsey Islands and is scheduled to leave it at five in the afternoon bound for the Portuguese port of Leixoes.
Spirit of Adventure
This vessel, owned by the British shipping company Saga and consigned by Pérez y Cía, will dock at the Cantabrian port on October 15, coming from the French port of Le Verdon and bound for the port of Leixoes.
Spirit of Adventure
This vessel, owned by the British shipping company Saga and consigned by Pérez y Cía, will dock at the Cantabrian port on October 15, coming from the French port of Le Verdon and bound for the port of Leixoes.
The ship, with a length of 236 meters and a beam of 31.2 meters, left the German Meyer Werft shipyard last year. Its maximum capacity of 1,000 passengers is reduced due to COVID measures to a maximum of 800 and it will have 550 crew members. It is luxury and offers some of the largest suites in the industry.