The world’s newest cruise ship, the “Sky Princess”, arrived at the port of Piraeus on Monday, with representatives of the Piraeus Port Authority presenting the vessel’s master, Capt. Heikki Laakkonen, with a commemorative plaque and books for the onboard library, naftemporiki.gr reports.
The Sky Princess has a length of 330 meters and weighs 143K tons. The vessel, launched this month, can accommodate 3,660 passengers, and is regarded as a state-of-the-art cruise ship.
According to numbers over the first nine months of the year, the cruise ship sector at the port of Piraeus increased by 14.6 percent, compared to 2018; 18.2 percent up in terms of homeporting.
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