Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/01/11
By: Chen Wei-ting and Evelyn Kao
Taipei, Jan. 11 (CNA) International cruise liners have been showing increasing interest
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in using Keelung Port in northern Taiwan as a base from which to tap into the regional cruise market, which has been growing.
Last year, Princess Cruises, a leading liner, unveiled a plan to make Keelung the home port for three of its cruise ships, and this year Star Cruises also made a similar announcement.
Those two decisions are expected to fuel the cruise ship boom at the port and help drive up Taiwan’s cruise visitor numbers to around 1.24 million this year.
Princess Cruises last year began using Keelung as a home port for its Majestic Princess vessel on its turn-around cruises, and will do the same with its Sun Princess and Diamond Princess ships this year. [FULL STORY]
