3 Ships to start the month of November

Tobi Hughes·
Madeira News

Who can believe we are already in November? Another month and the Christmas lights will be turned on. ???

3 ships in port today, the Mein Schiff 3 which arrived yesterday.

Island sky the smallest of the 3, and MSC Splendida.

This month 47 ship visits are expected according to the Ports website, but this has been very unreliable lately, I hope they can keep it updated a little better in the future.

Thanks to Rita Silva Pereira for the photos below of the MSC Splendida coming in this morning.

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Tobi Hughes

4 Responses

  1. What do you mean “unreliable”? Some companies are cancelling cruises 2 weeks ahead. Should the Ports administration cancel by themselves? The list is updated when the cruise companies oficially inform the port they won’t be operating.

  2. Madeira would do better if it followed the current trend (worldwide) to limit cruise ship to call port in Madeira.

    As More Ports Ban Mega Cruise Ships, What Is the Future of the Largest Vessels?

    Scott Laird
    Tue, November 2, 2021, 12:37 AM·5 min read

    Tahiti

    More than a third of Tahiti’s visitors are cruise passengers, but next year, they won’t be arriving on board some of the industry’s largest mega cruise ships.

    In late September, French Polynesia’s government announced that cruise ships with a capacity greater than 3,500 passengers will be banned from making port calls in the country as of January 1, 2022. Ships with capacity of more than 2,500 passengers will be limited to calls at Tahiti and two other ports with sufficient infrastructure to accommodate them. Bora Bora, the country’s top tourist draw, will further limit daily cruise passengers to 1,200—effectively barring most large cruise ships from docking.

    The country’s leaders are concerned that larger ships would not only tax local infrastructure, but also impact the experience for non-cruise visitors. Local officials on Bora Bora had requested the limits as early as 2019 to “preserve the beauty of its lagoon as well as the quality of service which has made it famous,” according to a government release.

    Today, most cruise passengers in Tahiti sail onboard small ships nowhere near the caps imposed by the new ban. The luxury cruise liner Paul Gauguin and the combination cargo/cruise ship Aranui 5—both based in Tahiti with local crews—embark fewer than 350 passengers each.

    While port calls by the largest ships are infrequent, the measure is intended to be proactive, recognizing the steady growth of cruise traffic in the region. The government’s statement regarding larger cruise ships does not mince words: “Both in terms of capacity and size, [very large ships] are not suited for our destination.”

    The news is likely to upend some travel plans. Ships from major cruise lines call at ports in French Polynesia on repositioning voyages in the Pacific. Royal Princess and sister ship Majestic Princess, with capacity for 3,600 passengers, currently plan to call at Tahiti while repositioning to Australia in September 2022. Royal Princess has also scheduled a port call at Bora Bora.

    Repositioning cruises also dock at Tahiti for technical reasons—it’s one of a few large ports across the vast expanse of the Pacific. Without a port call, the voyage from Hawaii to New Zealand takes well over a week. The president of French Polynesia, Édouard Fritch, acknowledges this, saying in a statement that exceptional circumstances will be considered for transpacific voyages. A spokesperson for Princess Cruises confirmed they “are in dialogue with port officials” and that they “hope not to cancel any planned calls.”

    more here:https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/more-ports-ban-mega-cruise-173700866.html

    1. Why would we want to do that, as said we are open for all and cope very well, sometimes we even have 5 ships in on a day, no problems reported, this was before covid.

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