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2016 August 1   18:03

Passenger Port of St. Petersburg received 61 cruise ships last month

Between July 1st and 31st Passenger Port of St. Petersburg has received 61 cruise ships, which brought 133 765 passengers, says the Port’s press center.  Wind Surf, Mein Schiff 5, Monarch, Sea Cloud II and Sea Princess called the Port for the first time.
The total berth time of the ships is 119 ship-days, total amount of passenger operations 499 491.

Services provided to ships:

Fresh water bunkering – 14 182  m3
Garbage collection –  1 061 m3
Waste-waters reception – 11 169  m3

In the indicated period 23 helicopters have used the helipad of Passenger Port of Saint Petersburg for landing and take-off.

On July 7th, the Council of Her Majesty, Head of Consular Service in the Russian Federation Thomas Christopher Regan and representatives of the Consulate General of Great Britain made an official visit to the Passenger Port of St. Petersburg.

In the indicated period  3 TV series "The Bridge" (film company "Petrofilm Production"), "New life" (film company “Russian Gold Series")  and "Debtor’ hovel" (production company "Sreda") was were shoot  at the Passenger Port of St. Petersburg.

On July 28th, delegation of Republic of Korea leaded by Deputy Minister of state territories, infrastructure and transport  Mr. Lee Seung Ho made a visit to the Passenger Port of St. Petersburg.

On July 29th, the ex- Vice-President of Nigeria Alex Ekwueme arrived to St. Petersburg on a cruise ship «Seven Seas Voyager» with an unofficial visit.

July 28-29 “PP of SPb MF” PLC representatives at the invitation of the mayor Henry Lindel visited Kotka city and participated in the opening of annual Maritime Festival.

This month's highest quantity of ships in Port was 7, on July 19th and 26th.