Tag: Punta Arenas cruise season

• Friday, February 13th 2015 - 13:56 UTC

  A canine brigade in Punta Arenas helps to speed the landing of 4.000 visitors

  

  How do you manage to make the mandatory phyto-sanitary controls when 4.000 visitors come ashore on the same day virtually at the same time, and the port is not a major terminal. Particularly when the country is a main producer of fruit and other agriculture goods and must act with the utmost jealousy to ensure its privileged position as a world leading exporter.

• Monday, February 2nd 2015 - 03:46 UTC

  “Good cruise season” for Punta Arenas with some 60.000 visitors

  

  Punta Arenas in the extreme south of Chile is expecting some 60.000 visitors this cruise season (2014/15) according to estimates from the local port authority Empresa Portuaria Austral, EPA, which is considered a 'good season' and an improvement over previous years.

• Tuesday, November 18th 2014 - 07:12 UTC

  Punta Arenas expects 60.000 visitors this cruise season

  

  An estimated 60.000 visitors will be landing in Punta Arenas, extreme south of Chile during this 2014/2015 cruise season, according to the manager of the Austral Ports Company, Ignacio Covacevich Fugellie. This includes 54.000 from international vessels and another 6.500 of Chilean flagged cruises on domestic tours.