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Cunard, which celebrates its 175th anniversary this year, embodies the essence of Britain both in its ships and the shipping company's rich history.
The Port will close out 2015 exceeding initial expectations, with around 140,000 passengers and more than 50,000 crew members.
The Port of A Coruña will once again close its cruise season with visits from ships of the Cunard line, considered the most luxurious in the world. A total of four calls will take place between November and December. The first took place today, with the arrival of the<Queen Victoria> at 9:00 a.m., arriving from Southampton. This vessel, which is part of the Cunard fleet along with the<Queen Elizabeth> and the<Queen Mary 2> It has docked with more than 2,000 passengers and 900 crew members on board, and is scheduled to depart for Cadiz at 5:00 p.m.
It is planned that on November 28th the<Queen Victoria> It will make another visit to the city, also with more than 2,000 passengers. Before that date, specifically on November 16, it will dock at the Transatlantic Pier.<Queen Elizabeth> , of very similar dimensions and capacity, to repeat the stop on December 20, thus concluding the schedule of Cunard ships' stops in A Coruña during this year.
The Cunard cruises' stops in A Coruña are part of a program of routes designed to commemorate the 175th anniversary of this shipping company, which represents the purest British essence, with unmistakable hallmarks reflected in the classic and elegant lines of the three ships in its fleet. On July 4, 1840, the first ship chartered by Cunard, the<Britannia> It left Liverpool to sail the icy waters of the Atlantic Ocean and make its first voyage to Canada and the United States. Another legendary ship of this shipping company was the<Lusitania> The ship was struck by a German torpedo in May 1915, becoming one of the 22 Cunard vessels lost during the First World War in the conflict zone. Its sinking would become a symbol of the war and of the Allied victory.
Adding these four calls, a total of 12 cruise ship arrivals will be made at the Port of A Coruña by the end of the year. The schedule has been strengthened with new additions, raising initial expectations, with forecasts to close 2015 with figures close to 140,000 passengers and more than 50,000 crew members. This means that around 200,000 travelers, most of them from abroad, will have disembarked in the city this year.
