The world’s largest international cruise ship can now call at Kagoshima Port Marine Port for the first time with two cruise ships[03/13 19:20]
Last year, a new wharf was added to Marine Port Kago in Kagoshima City, allowing two cruise ships to call at the port at the same time. On the 13th, two ships called at the port at the same time for the first time since the expansion.
Around 8:00 am, the cruise ship “Azamara Quest” from Okinawa arrived at Marine Port Kagoshima. About two hours later, the “Silver Muse” from Hong Kong showed up.
(Reporter) “Today, the second cruise ship arrived at Marine Port Kagoshima.
The people who greeted us at the port of call at the same time for the first time.
(From Kirishima City) “I came here because you said you would come with two ships. (Q. How about actually seeing it?) It’s huge.”
(From Kagoshima City) “I’m happy to have two ships, but I’m glad that the ships haven’t come for a long time because of the coronavirus, so I’m just looking forward to it.”
At Marine Port Kagoshima, in 2019, in order to cope with the increase in the number of cruise ships and the size of the cruise ships, the prefecture built quay No. 2 with a water depth of 10 meters and a quay wall of 410 meters that can accommodate the world’s largest passenger ships next to quay 1. was completed in March last year.
However, due to the influence of the new corona, the acceptance was stopped, so it was finally possible to call at the port at the same time after one year from completion.
(Prefectural PR Tourism Division Advisor Hidenori Yamamoto) “The prefecture has been waiting impatiently for two ships to line up. We would like to work to have various cruise ships come to Kagoshima more and more, and to have them stop at the port.”
There are about 900 passengers on the cruise ship alone on the 13th. In order to increase this economic effect, the prefecture plans to increase the number of international cruise ships calling at the port by utilizing Wharf No. 2.
