British Isles
Liverpool And Southampton Clash Over Cruise Industry
The cruise industry in Britain is huge and as the only port in the country that allowed to have cruise liners start and finish journeys Southampton has a 100% share in the market and the industry is a massive contributor to the Southampton and Hampshire economy, improvements made to the Southampton cruise ship terminal have helped a great deal to attracted some big cruise lines such as Oceania cruises and Seabourn cruises. But Liverpool is now looking to become a terminal for cruise liners to start and end their trips from the city, the added attraction of having an estimated £1.5 million boost to the local economy with every cruise liner that uses the Liverpool terminal to start and finish from
The problem with this is that the Liverpool terminal was subsidised with public funding what the government sees an unfair advantage over the commercially funded Southampton terminal, for the Liverpool bid to be granted by the government the city would have to find a way of repaying the state funding. Currently cruise ships can only visit the Liverpool terminal as part of a destination on a cruise itinerary and cruise ships are not allowed to start or end journeys from the port as per the governments regulations, however if Liverpool were to gain rights to start and end cruises from the city then they would be expecting around 25 40 liners a year, around 4 6% of the market share.
Cruising has become a very popular vacation option over the last few years with more and more Britons choosing the option as their yearly holiday, there are so many cruise deals from many of the top cruise lines available both on line and from high street retailers there is no wonder the competition to become a cruise terminal is such a hot topic at the moment and Southampton are looking to retain 100% or the market share and remain the cruising capital of the British Isles for the future
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