Singapore: In a release to mark the start of Cruise Shipping Asia-Pacific yesterday Dr Liu Zinan, managing director, China and Asia, for Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, noted: “The wave of new and upcoming improvements in cruise infrastructure across ASEAN is a significant boost to the region’s cruise industry. This is shown by our company’s unprecedented number and size of ships here this year. With more developed ports here, which are essential for growing cruise markets and attractive itineraries, more international cruise operators like us will be drawn to ASEAN.”
They include Costa Cruises’ Costa Deliziosa and Royal Caribbean’s Voyager of the Seas, the largest cruise ship ever to homeport in Asia. [18/09/12]
