Megacruiser "Eurodam", company Holland America Line (HAL), in the period after the main summer tourist and nautical season, will sail into Kotor three times.
This was confirmed yesterday by this American-Dutch company, which is a member of the world's largest cruise corporation - the American Carnival, noting that after the completion of its four shorter seven-day Mediterranean cruises this season in the region of the Greek islands, "Eurodam" will make five additional trips. in the period from mid-September to the end of October. On three of those longer, 12-day cruises, which include the ship's visits to ports in Italy, Croatia, Albania, Greece, Turkey and Spain, "Eurodam" will also visit Montenegro, sailing into the port of Kotor.
"Eurodam" has a capacity of 2.104 passengers and 949 crew members. This "Signature" class megacruiser has 86.2743 gross tons, is 285 meters long and 32,2 meters wide and was built in 2008 in Italy.
The cruising industry in the world is slowly starting up after the almost complete suspension of circular tourist cruises that lasted almost a year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Most companies are just launching their ships, or will return them to operational use in the next few months, so the number of cruise ship visits this year to destinations that, like Kotor, are among the most attractive in that segment of the tourism industry, will still be limited. For now, several companies have confirmed or announced their interest in having their ships start coming regularly to Kotor again - among them are Carnival members - HAL, Italian Costa Crociere and MSC Cruises, as well as Silversea Cruises from Monaco, which is a member of the world's second most powerful cruise corporation. - of the American Royal Caribbean. However, whether it will be realized in the end is uncertain for now, because the decision of the European Union to place Montenegro on the list of risky countries in terms of measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus is still in force, which in practice means that every cruise ship that after visiting Montenegro, would sail into one of the ports in the EU countries, he would have to stay there with all the persons on board for ten or fourteen days in quarantine. Therefore, our tourism workers and businessmen involved in the chain of providing services to cruise ships in our ports expect the Montenegrin Government and diplomacy to take all measures as soon as possible in order for the EU administration to change this restrictive treatment of Montenegro from the aspect of the situation with the coronavirus. By the way, HAL recently announced that in a very limited number of this season's voyages of its ships until the beginning of September, it will also have a special honor for the port of Kotor - the opportunity for our port to be one of those it will visit on its maiden voyage HAL's latest ship - the brand new megacruiser 'Rotterdam'. The 99.800 gross ton ship, 297 meters long and 34 meters wide, worth over 480 million euros, whose construction and equipment is currently being completed at the shipyard of the Italian corporation Fincantieri in Marghera near Trieste, will set off in early August on its first commercial voyage - a seven-day cruise from Trieste to Ćivitavekja in Italy, with visits to Zadar in Croatia, Kotor in Montenegro, Corfu in Greece, and the ports of Taormina and Naples in Italy. Thus, the "Rotterdam", which has a capacity of 2.668 passengers and 1.025 crew members, should sail into Kotor for the first time on August 4.
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