MeinSchiff 5 also docks at the Port of Palma
Palma
23/09/2016
The arrival of the newly launched MeinSchiff 5 at the Port of Palma means it is the first port where all 5 ships belonging to the company TUI Cruises will anchor in 2016.
On its way from Cadiz, the latest TUI Cruises ship will stop over in the Mallorcan capital, once again opting for one of the APB's ports as a home port. This is not the first time the company has chosen a Balearic port to unveil one of its cruise ships. In June 2014, the Port of Palma was also a stop-off point for the recently inaugurated MeinSchiff 3. It was also chosen as the setting to launch the MeinSchiff 4, the sister ship of the one presented today.
The arrival of MeinSchiff 5 means that the five TUI Cruises ships will have used the Port of Palma as their operational base in 2016, making it the only port to have welcomed them all in the same year.
It is a 295 metre-long ship that can hold 2,600 passengers.
Chairman of the APB, Juan Carlos Plaza, and captain of the MeinSchiff 5, Tood Gurtman, today exchanged the traditional plaques accrediting the solid relationship between the APB and the company.
The five MeinSchiffs will stop over up to thirteen times between now and the end of the year and the MeinSchiff 2 will be based in Palma throughout the winter, helping to unmistakably address the seasonal touristic nature of the island of Mallorca.
Next season, the company's five ships will stop over a total of 58 times at the Balearic ports - 37 stop-overs at Palma and 21 at Eivissa.
