Each year over 300 cruise ships dock in Copenhagen, after which the tourists take off in the nation’s capital to see the sights.
With the prospect of a healthy growth of the Danish cruise market started the Copenhagen Malmö Port in the end of 2019, the bidding process for the establishment of a new cruise, which is scheduled for completion in 2022, and would increase the capacity for large cruise ships in Copenhagen.
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Coronakrisen, however, has, among other things, after several unfortunate stories about passengers trapped on the ship, hit the cruise industry hard, and because of coronakrisens negative effects on the global cruise market is postponed to the terminal now on an indefinite period of time.
this was stated by The Copenhagen Malmö Port, in a press release.
the Terminal was scheduled to have been on Oceankaj in Copenhagen’s Nordhavn.
– It is, of course, incredibly regrettable, is also facing the parties involved in the bidding process, that the investment in a new cruise to be postponed, says Barbara Scheel Agersnap, CEO of Copenhagen Malmö Port, in a press release.
At Copenhagen Malmö Port, which stands for port operation in Copenhagen and Malmo, so you otherwise, check in 2020, with optimism.
– Until a few months ago so we check in a healthy 2020, with a record number of cruise ships and with barely a million guests to Copenhagen. But with coronakrisens took there put a sudden stopper in global growth – also in Copenhagen, where the forecasts suggest that krydstogtsæsonen 2020 is cancelled completely, followed by a degree of uncertainty the next year, says Barbara Scheel Agersnap.
the Terminal had to have been the fourth terminal at the Oceankaj, but now postponed it indefinitely.
– The new terminal was to consolidate Copenhagen’s position as the hub for cruise tourism in the north of europe, but now we have to wait until the situation is reversed, and we can again focus on developing a sustainable cruise tourism to the benefit of the whole region, she says.
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