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Passenger Port of St. Petersburg "Marine Facade" congratulates you with holidays - Christmas and New Year!

Thank you for your cooperation and trust in our company and wish you all the best in 2015!

Happy New Year!

During the navigation period of 2014 Passenger port Saint Petersburg has received 234 cruise and 5 ferry vessels that brought a total of 483 456 passengers to St. Petersburg. The 2014 cruise season has started on April 26th when the “Discovery” vessel of Global Cruises Limited has made a call to the Port. This cruise vessel call was remarkable as it was the earliest one to be made in the entire operation of “Marine façade”. The 2014 navigation was concluded by the «Marco Polo» vessel of Global Cruises Limited that made her call to the Port on October 21st. For the purpose of extending the cruise season, vessels that made their calls to St. Peters...

The foundation meeting of the Cruise Industry Leaders Association of St. Petersburg took place on December 12th, 2014.

The Association was established by the industry leaders of the Russian North-west: Arctur Travel, Baltic Travel, Inflot Worldwide, St. Peter Line and Passenger port of St. Petersburg.

The main goal of the Association is to develop cruise tourism in Russia, raise awareness about cruises among citizens of our country and to promote St. Petersburg as a major cruise and ferry destination on international level.

The Association strives to create conditions for efficient work of market players, contribute to the development of special target programs fa...

Wednesday November 26th at 14h00 a press-conference on the 2014 navigation results of Passenger Port of Saint Petersburg “Marine Fa?ade” will take place at the press center of “Interfax” news agency (38 Sadovaya str.).

The participants of the press-conference are: captain of the Passenger port Saint Petersburg Yuri Orlov, deputy chairman of St. Petersburg Committee on Transport Alexey Lvov, deputy chairman of St. Petersburg Committee on Tourism Development Rimma Sachunova, chairman of “Passenger port Saint Petersburg” State border checkpoint coordinating council Alexander Timofeev, head of PLC “Passenger Port of Saint Petersburg “Marine Fa?ade” Serik Zhusupo...

A meeting of the Board of Directors of PLC "Passenger Port of St. Petersburg "Marine Facade" took place on November 14th 2014.

As part of the agenda the Company's current activities were discussed, including the budget performance of "Passenger Port of St. Petersburg "Marine Fa?ade" for 9 months of the year 2014, and the approval of the Company's budget for the year 2015.

During the international conference "Development of cruise tourism: Focus on St. Petersburg" at the Passenger Port "Marine Facade" a round table: "Development of cruise and ferry lines in the Baltic Sea:how to attract more tourists to St. Petersburg during navigation" has taken place.

Participants discussed the cruise market trends in the Baltic Sea, its prospects and future projections. As part of the discussion parties considered the results of the 2014 navigation in Passenger Port of St. Petersburg, as well as basic indicators characterizing portrait arriving cruise tourists in St Petersburg.

Participants emphasized the need for joint efforts to create the most comf...

November 12th representatives of public authorities, professionals and the cruise market experts will gather in St. Petersburg at the international conference "Development of cruise tourism: Focus on St. Petersburg."

In the plenary session, the participants will summarize the past season and the main prospects and directions of work for 2015.

The first working section will be devoted to the special status of St. Petersburg as the "pearl" of the ferry and cruise tourism and the promotion of its tourism product.

In the second section the representatives of tourism companies engaged in the reception of cruise tourists in St. Petersburg, representatives of the le...

On 5-6 November, 2014 in Tallinn took place regular meeting of representatives of the ports of the Baltic Sea: Copenhagen, Helsinki, Kiel, Riga, Rostock, Saint-Petersburg, Stockholm and Tallinn.

Participants discussed the prospects of the development of the cruise market in the Baltic Sea region, including the possibility of extending the cruise season in the Baltic Sea and promotion of concept of winter cruises. Moreover, parties discussed the issue of improving the infrastructure of the Baltic ports necessary for the reception of ships and providing the additional services.

Following the meeting, it was agreed to continue cooperation for the promotion of the Baltic S...

Today, 21 October, at the Passenger Port of St. Petersburg has berthed cruise ship «Marco Polo» with 751 passengers on board belonging to the British cruise line Cruise & Maritime Voyages. This call for «Marco Polo» is the fifth one in 2014 and the twentieth throughout the navigation of the Passenger Port. Most of the tourists who arrived on board of the ship are citizens of the UK.

In a 12-day cruise ship visited the ports of Tilbury, Copenhagen, Warnemunde, Tallinn, in Saint-Petersburg will stay for two days and then she will visit the ports of Helsinki and Nyn?shamn. This year in December the ship will be in the Mediterranean and in January 2015 she will go into a transa...

PLC "Passenger Port of St. Petersburg "Marine Façade" took part in the tenth cruise exhibition Seatrade MED 2014 in Barcelona.

As part of the exhibition of PLC "Passenger Port of St. Petersburg "Marine Façade" discussions were held with representatives of the cruise lines and ports in the Baltic Sea, discussed the preliminary results of the summer cruise navigation in 2014 as well as plans for 2015.

Seatrade MED (Seatrade Mediterranean Cruise & Ferry Convention) - one of the most prestigious events of the cruise in the Mediterranean, brings together more than 3,000 visitors and 170 participating companies.

Today on 5th September, sunny and warm autumn day, in the Passenger Port of St. Petersburg five cruise ships.

The total number of arrived passengers - 8800.

By the seventh berth moored m/s Royal Princess (Carnival Corporation) with 3600 passengers on board, who came in passenger port for the eleventh time in navigation 2014. This is the last call of this year.

At the third berth m/s Seven Seas Voyager (Prestige Cruise Holdings Inc.). The total number of ship calls' of Seven Seas Voyager during navigation to the Passenger Port since 2008 - 35 times.