In the summer of 2021, despite the ongoing pandemic, MSC Cruises has moved one million passengers in Italy, with 8 ships making 400 calls in 14 ports. The company that belongs to the Aponte family has chosen Genoa to present, aboard MSC Virtuosa, launched last March and for the first time in Italy, moored at the docks of the port of Lanterna, the balance of a season still struggling with the Covid but in clear recovery.
“We were here on August 16, 2020, a bit reckless, to restart the cruise industry with MSC Grandiosa – recalled Leonardo Massa, managing director of the company – thanks to a anticovid protocol, developed by us first, which proved to be one best practice worldwide and which has allowed us, to date, to launch 11 ships out of a fleet of 19 ”.
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Profitability recovery in 2023
If the number of guests transported, in the recently concluded summer season, has reached one million, the return to normality, in terms of volumes, is already expected for the summer of 2022, with all 19 ships in operation.
«To recover profitability, with the average cost of cruises that has dropped – said Massa – I think instead we will have to wait until 2023, in a situation in continuous and constant evolution, because none of us today knows with certainty when we will be able to go to South Africa, South America or China or Japan ».
The ships touch 21 nations
At the moment, the manager clarified, MSC has ships in 21 countries, as well as in the Mediterranean in Northern Europe, the Caribbean, the Red Sea and Saudi Arabia. «Today alone – he added – on board our fleet around the world there are 30 thousand guests and ships travel with a 70% fill, the maximum allowed to guarantee security under anti-Covid regulations “.