On Wednesday, April 29, the annual Cruise Europe conference took place, bringing together more than one hundred members of this organization in Santander.
The event, held at the Magdalena Palace, began at 9:30 a.m. with the opening ceremony, which was attended by the Minister of Innovation, Industry, Tourism and Labor of the Government of Cantabria, Eduardo Arasti; the President of the Port of Santander, José Joaquín Martínez Sieso; the Councilor for Tourism of the City of Santander, Gema Igual; and the President of Cruise Europe, Michael McCarthy.
Following the opening, the technical sessions began with the presence of representatives from some of the most important international cruise operators such as Pullmantur, TUI Cruises, Holland America Line, Cruise & Maritime Voyages, Carnival UK and Noble Caledonia.
Throughout the afternoon, Cruise Europe participants held different regional meetings by zones: Iceland, Norway and the Faroe Islands; the Baltic; the United Kingdom and Ireland and the west coast of Europe, and a general assembly.
Cruise Europe is an international organization that integrates more than one hundred ports in northern and western Europe, including the ports of Lisbon, Vigo, Santander, Bilbao, Brest, Le Havre, Dover, Southampton, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Zeebrugge, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Malmo, Riga, Tallinn, St. Petersburg and Helsinki, among others.
