Buenos Aires ready to offer tours to passengers arriving by cruise

Between this month and February, about 159 cruise ships arrive at the new terminal Quinquela Martin in Buenos Aires, with over 400 thousand passengers on board, officials of tourism and transport leaving Argentina opened the 2011-2012 season of the activity in that city.
After being reopened last year, and after having added new performance spaces and their facilities, Terminal Quinquela Martin is now recognized as one of the largest and most modern in South America, said Minister of Tourism of Argentina, Enrique Meyer, stressing that it is therefore “the first blow of impact for our visitors through this modality.”
According to a dispatch of Telam, the minister recalled that something very important is that increased attention span that cruise terminal, from 120 thousand to 600 thousand passengers per season and also doubled its services, which “may continue to manage the arrival of more ships in the future. ”
The terminal now has a central building of 12,300 square meters, a waiting room for 2,000 people, a tank with capacity for more than 12 000 bags and 72 check-in counters and boarding, among other amenities.
In addition, third jetty was extended to achieve the vertical spring and could receive two ships simultaneously with lengths greater than 300 meters, the report highlights the agency.
Along with these substantial changes, which help can be received more cruisers and vacationers on board of them in Buenos Aires, at the opening of this season, signed a resolution between the Ministry of Transport and Port Administration (AGP) from Argentina to establish a tariff bonus for ships that arrive outside the summer period.
The Secretary of Transportation of the South American nation, Juan Pablo Schiavi, considered the best proof that progress in this area is that of the 123 ships passed received in Buenos Aires in 2010 to 159 this year, but felt that “you can continue moving further from the attractions of Buenos Aires as a destination. ”
“We are in a cruise terminal opened less than a year that has all the amenities to make ever-larger ships can come to Argentina, complementing this circuit that is Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata, Puerto Madryn, Ushuaia,” he added the manager.

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In his presentation Schiavi reiterated that it is essential that SMEs, Argentine companies and industries are encouraged to sell more products and quality services to these international cruises, “because it is a way to position the brand of our country in the world”, he noted.
The event also announced that Royal Caribbean and Cruise, which operates in the port of Buenos Aires through their local shipping agent Navijet SA, announced that 2012 will be doing some off-season five scales in that city.