Three ships and a movement of more than 11,800 people in the Port of Funchal

Tobi Hughes·
Madeira News

The Port of Funchal now has three ships and more than 11,800 people. 

A really beautiful sunny day for the passengers wifh clear blue skies, and a top temperature of 22°.

The ‘Iona’ arrived this morning, the ‘AIDAsol’ and the ‘Norwegian Sun’ docked yesterday and will stay until this afternoon, moving a total of 11,836 people, including passengers and crew, of which 8,637 are passengers, reveals the APRAM – Administration of the Ports of the Autonomous Region of Madeira.

APRAM – Administration of the Ports of the Autonomous Region of Madeira also reveals that the Port of Funchal, in two days, yesterday and today, received five ships and a total of 16,489 people, of which 13,629 are passengers.

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9 Responses

  1. It’s just too many people visiting at the same time.
    They queue up along the levadas It’s ridiculous.
    Eight coaches at a time for Referta levada on a Thursday and Sunday.
    Tourists complaining they can’t get in a bar at end of 2hour walk.

    1. Having just reread your comment my apologies for the four coaches a day comment. It should of course read eight. Then again I don’t suppose they all get there at the same time.

  2. Four coaches a day ? How many miles of Levadas ? When I hear the Bartender complaining then I might think of agreeing with you.

    1. Not too sure the Madeirans who can remember the state of the Island then would want to go back to those days. I would, but then again I only had to spend two weeks holiday a year there.

      1. GeorgeNabbs
        I do I remember very well the old Madeira and also Santa Cruz area that where the airport expansion the top and bottom was full of quintas and houses with gardens and farm land with a lot fruit trees plus a school before the graveyard where is the car park . And the place in Santa Cruz where is the road that goes to airport was their a old dragoon tree and in the bottom a old fort everything is gone . If you like to see the old Madeira go to visit Madeira Photography Museum – Atelier Vicente’s in Rua da Carreira 43, 9000-042 Funchal . That is something I need to go visit in August this summer . ??

        1. Isabel, I went to the Photography Museum in 1968 and again when it recently re-opened. The area you speak of sounds idyllic but do you remember the old town and the back streets of Funchal. No quintas, and fruit trees there, hovels and rubbish. I don’t know why you left Madeira but I have Madeiran friends, some who have returned, some still in the UK and when asked, why did you leave the answer was, “what else could we do.” Would I like Madeira to return to those days? No, and I don’t think many Madeirans would either.

          1. GeorgeNabbs
            Neither I was implying to return to the old times. People have their memories from where they live.As far as the old Funchal where I did study and I remember it’s not a description of what you’re doing and I know very well Funchal . And I left in 1999 to live with my British boyfriend and present husband and will be living there until 2018 and 2019 and I did return many time sto visit my mother that still lives their . The main reason to not return and live their was that my husband thought that the island was too small to live in and Portugal was near to Europe to travel . And the other thing that you need to takre in consideration is the need to use in and out the airport something that was taken in consideration .

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