World cruises bring £10m boost to city (From Daily Echo)
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Four P&O cruises ships to leave on world trips
3:00pm Saturday 31st December 2011 in News
World cruises bring £10m boost to city
Southampton is to receive a £10m cash boost when thousands of people embark on world cruises from the port in the next two weeks.
P&O Cruises will see the departure of four vessels – Oriana, Aurora, Arcadia and Adonia – on worldwide itineraries, which will take them away from the city for the next three months.
Despite the present economic doldrums more than 6,000 passengers will converge on Southampton to begin winter cruises to the far corners of the globe during the first two weeks of January.
It seems more and more people are shrugging off gloomy financial forecasts by choosing to spend the cold winter months in warmer climates on board Southampton-based cruise ships.
World cruises make up one of the industry’s fastest-growing sectors as more and more people see long voyages as offering unrivalled value for money with prices for the 2012 itineraries starting at £82 per person per night, including all meals, entertainment and accommodation on board.
According to P&O Cruises, the most recent research by shipping industry experts indicates the company’s four vessels will generate at least £2.5m each for the local economy during their “turnarounds’’ between voyages in Southampton.
Hotels, restaurants, port and transport services, including Southampton Airport, trains, taxis and coaches, as well as specialist suppliers, are all expected to benefit by the influx of passengers.
On top of this thousands of crew members will head for Southampton’s city centre shops to stock up on personal items for the long voyages ahead.
Collectively the four cruises will visit 148 ports of call, including Buenos Aires, New Orleans, Sydney and Cape Town and cruising in the Amazon, off Cape Horn, Beagle Channel and the Amalia Glacier in Chile.
During their time on board, passengers will consume more than 1,636,600 cups of tea, 3,200,000 sachets of sugar, 21,700 lobsters and 66,000 cocktails.
As each of the four ships leave port they will be flying a special 175th Anniversary flag as P&O Cruises kicks off a full year of celebrations to mark the foundation of the original Peninsular Steam Navigation Company in 1837.
Comments(34)
hedge end bob
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3:37pm Sat 31 Dec 11
hedge end bob
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3:41pm Sat 31 Dec 11
Condor Man wrote:I think you might be talking at least 100 nights away.Lets see now £82 x 100....?
at £82 a night it's little wonder why so many people are taking cruise holidays.
Pikey Pete
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3:52pm Sat 31 Dec 11
Who minds how much people pay to be on a floating prison ship.(Yeah luxury prison ship)...Then when they get the vomiting bug...Etc...
Not sure if id like to be in a boat with . hedge end bob. **** on those pickle babs.
Still it will fill the sails.
ToastyTea
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3:57pm Sat 31 Dec 11
RadicalEmu
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4:55pm Sat 31 Dec 11
ToastyTea wrote:Welcome to UK plc.
I love the way P&O/Carnival UK act like their doing everyone in Soton a favour yet they pay their employees bloody peanuts despite increased profits. They're a joke and I despise working for em.
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I don't see how the city benefits from this.
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Some hotels will benefit, that is all.
George4th
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5:07pm Sat 31 Dec 11
GraduallyACat
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5:14pm Sat 31 Dec 11
RadicalEmu wrote:Yes. It's a pity nobody works in any of those, and that the knock-on effect to the local economy is...oh, wait.
ToastyTea wrote:Welcome to UK plc.
I love the way P&O/Carnival UK act like their doing everyone in Soton a favour yet they pay their employees bloody peanuts despite increased profits. They're a joke and I despise working for em.
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I don't see how the city benefits from this.
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Some hotels will benefit, that is all.
Fatty x Ford Worker
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5:31pm Sat 31 Dec 11
Fatty x Ford Worker
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5:31pm Sat 31 Dec 11
Fatty x Ford Worker
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5:31pm Sat 31 Dec 11
ronn12
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6:25pm Sat 31 Dec 11
Torchie1
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9:54am Sun 1 Jan 12
ronn12 wrote:If the 'pool' is Liverpool, there used to be a thriving docks there until the employees decided that striking was better than working. If you ever travel to the near continent make a point of visiting any port from Hamburg down to Le Havre and see how they're coping with the ex Liverpool vessels.
Can't wait to see ships back in the pool where they belong !!!
peenut81
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1:21pm Sun 1 Jan 12
The local economy only benefits as much as the multinationals who own everything, share it back, which mostly they don't because they all avoid tax and are based offshore. Its good to know we're all in austerity Britain together as the generation that created the 'false boom' of the last 30 years spends its ill gotten gains on self indulgent cruising as their grandchildren prepare for a life of paying back their debts.
Tom Liverpool
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3:05pm Sun 1 Jan 12
Torchie1 wrote:Torchie1. If you're going to write rubbish, at least get some of you're facts right. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO LIVERPOOL?
ronn12 wrote:If the 'pool' is Liverpool, there used to be a thriving docks there until the employees decided that striking was better than working. If you ever travel to the near continent make a point of visiting any port from Hamburg down to Le Havre and see how they're coping with the ex Liverpool vessels.
Can't wait to see ships back in the pool where they belong !!!
georgetheseventh
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4:16pm Sun 1 Jan 12
Fatty x Ford Worker wrote:Why oh why do you alway's have to bring the Mersey into this ??. Strange sad people..never happy are you. Go to bed despising Lpool..stay awake all night..despising Lpool..wake next morning..despising Lpool..drink your anti belching fluid whilst you despise Lpool..ha ha..nowt funny as folk is there ?
Ferry across the Mersey no thank you!
georgetheseventh
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4:24pm Sun 1 Jan 12
By the way..lets start the year off as WE mean to finish it. The recent report on the amount of PUBLIC funding your tax dodging PRIVATE dock company has received and is DUE to receive is a disgrace..but its starting to leak out now..like the fluid from a rotten apple.
georgetheseventh
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4:26pm Sun 1 Jan 12
Fatty x Ford Worker wrote:Fatty...happy new year....erm..how much longer do you think you will be employed by Ford ????
Ferry across the Mersey no thank you!
It wont be much longer..mark my words..take the FIRST offer sunshine.
georgetheseventh
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4:29pm Sun 1 Jan 12
Torchie1 wrote:Sad..sad little person..that sort of rumour doesnt work anymore.
ronn12 wrote:If the 'pool' is Liverpool, there used to be a thriving docks there until the employees decided that striking was better than working. If you ever travel to the near continent make a point of visiting any port from Hamburg down to Le Havre and see how they're coping with the ex Liverpool vessels.
Can't wait to see ships back in the pool where they belong !!!
2012....watch this space peeps....your southern 'glory' is going to wane.
georgetheseventh
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4:32pm Sun 1 Jan 12
Fatty x Ford Worker
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4:57pm Sun 1 Jan 12
georgetheseventh wrote:I got a job there for life mate up yours ! Ferry across the Mersey.Did not ACL used to call with Container ships at Sothampton and offer a Ro Ro Service.I wonder where this Shipping Line moved to!
Fatty x Ford Worker wrote:Fatty...happy new year....erm..how much longer do you think you will be employed by Ford ????
Ferry across the Mersey no thank you!
It wont be much longer..mark my words..take the FIRST offer sunshine.
Torchie1
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6:10pm Sun 1 Jan 12
Tom Liverpool wrote:Many many times I'm afraid and both you and I know that I've stated pure and simple facts. During the 70s the Liverpool dock workers were singly and totally responsible for the destruction of the general port system by going on strike at the drop of a hat. Theft and absenteeism was endemic but none of the shipping company owners would stand up to the militancy until the near continent became so attractive that the companies all abandoned Liverpool, and then the dockers whinged about how unfair the company bosses were. Don't make me laugh, the dockers got what they deserved and drove another nail in the coffin in the process. Until you learn to face reality, you'll probably follow the ex dockworkers in to oblivion.
Torchie1 wrote:Torchie1. If you're going to write rubbish, at least get some of you're facts right. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO LIVERPOOL?
ronn12 wrote:If the 'pool' is Liverpool, there used to be a thriving docks there until the employees decided that striking was better than working. If you ever travel to the near continent make a point of visiting any port from Hamburg down to Le Havre and see how they're coping with the ex Liverpool vessels.
Can't wait to see ships back in the pool where they belong !!!
loosehead
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9:24am Mon 2 Jan 12
The article says it's bringing in £10million well who get's the money?
some passengers & coach drivers stay in a hotel so a few hotels can benefit but besides the the costs of the berth exactly where do we rake in £10million?
I don't want to lose the ships but please explain who's benefitting?
arizonan
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2:41pm Mon 2 Jan 12
Also, the Daily Echo removed the article in the national headlines, concerning the recent release from the national archives, of the aftermath of the 1981 riots.
Comments were made re. the 'managed decline' of Liverpool that was proposed by Mrs Thatcher's Government.
I commented that this present Government could be accused of the same if the decision for turnaround cruises from Liverpool is rejected.
loosehead
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7:59am Tue 3 Jan 12
arizonan wrote:If I watched the same news article as you it was Geoff Howe who put forward the decline of Liverpool idea. Heseltine was totally against it.
Why did the Daily Echo remove all the comments re. the article concerning Royal Caribbean not having any plans for Liverpool?
Also, the Daily Echo removed the article in the national headlines, concerning the recent release from the national archives, of the aftermath of the 1981 riots.
Comments were made re. the 'managed decline' of Liverpool that was proposed by Mrs Thatcher's Government.
I commented that this present Government could be accused of the same if the decision for turnaround cruises from Liverpool is rejected.
As the two of them said they decided to pump money into the city by setting up enterprise zones & tried to bring back jobs.
So if you want more government money just riot burn down as much as you can & hey presto you've got the money.
So are you going to do it again if you don't get your own way?
arizonan
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3:31pm Tue 3 Jan 12
But no suggestion of a managed decline of London.
Enterprise zones were also set up in other cities too.
If I see real, or possible bias against Liverpool, I will highlight it.
On that score, I hope the fact that the new Secretary of Transport attended Southampton University, does not influence her decision re. turnaround status for Liverpool.
loosehead
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9:15pm Tue 3 Jan 12
arizonan wrote:Your ex leader Hatton ( derek) I hope I got that right?
Check your facts. The riots in London preceded the Liverpool ones, so was a national disturbance, not a purely Liverpool one.
But no suggestion of a managed decline of London.
Enterprise zones were also set up in other cities too.
If I see real, or possible bias against Liverpool, I will highlight it.
On that score, I hope the fact that the new Secretary of Transport attended Southampton University, does not influence her decision re. turnaround status for Liverpool.
Said how he was justified in raising council taxes in your city by the levels he did & the riot & this release proves it do you agree with him?
Arizonian I come from a family where my father ended up in prison & our Christmas presents came from church/charity yet at no point did I or any of my family think of rioting.
After this last lot they're saying we want jobs yet when offered they turn them down as they get more on the dole.
These people no matter what part of the country should be locked up.
In Germany there's no youth unemployment as if they have no work they have to join one of the services maybe we should go that way.
Now this article says that cruise ships bring in £10million in revenue ? well these dockers,hotel workers,taxi drivers & coach drivers must be on a great wage otherwise where does all the money go?
the suppliers to the ships don't make that sort of money so who does?
I want the ships to stay but you should understand that getting them into Liverpool isn't going to bring your city untold wealth & most of you won't benefit at all
arizonan
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5:19am Wed 4 Jan 12
arizonan
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5:19am Wed 4 Jan 12
loosehead
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8:14am Wed 4 Jan 12
arizonan wrote:Your ex council leader? tried to justify huge tax increases? you know the one even Labour ( gov.) thought went to far
Please try again with your first and second paragraph, I do not understand.
arizonan
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3:36pm Wed 4 Jan 12
arizonan
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3:37pm Wed 4 Jan 12
loosehead
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3:59pm Wed 4 Jan 12
arizonan wrote:Arizonan I was trying to say I was bought up with the sight of cruise ships & don't want to lose them.
Try to stick to the point.
but to say they bring in £10million a year I would love to know who gets this money?
yes our dock jobs & some local suppliers hotels & taxi cabs are reliant on them but do these services equate to that much?
do not believe this will bring a lot of wealth into your peoples pockets or thousands of new jobs as it wont
arizonan
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4:57am Thu 5 Jan 12
If you are saying that Liverpool is going to take all of Southampton's traffic, that cannot happen for physical reasons.
Liverpool would increase the total cruise industry in the UK, not shift traffic from Newcastle and Southampton.
Of that, I am in no doubt
The Government has the chance to increase this industry by granting Liverpool turnaround status.
After all, that is what Government is supposed to do, increase the gross domestic product of the country.
Condor Man says...
3:30pm Sat 31 Dec 11