Forth Ports wins cruise industry award

Edinburgh awarded “Best Destination Experience”

31st March 2014

Forth Ports are this week celebrating after Edinburgh picked up a coveted cruise industry award at Seatrade Miami, one of the cruise industry’s biggest and most widely recognised events in the calendar. Edinburgh took home the award for “Best Destination Experience”, in the port and destination awards with particular focus on organised tours in Edinburgh. Edinburgh is a key destination for Forth Ports, with many of Scotland’s most high-profile tourist attractions in the capital city.

Forth Ports was part of Seatrade Miami, which ran for three days in Miami, Florida, to showcase their cruise destinations at Leith, Rosyth, Dundee and London to cruise liner owners and operators from across the world.

The Cruise industry in the UK saw a fantastic season throughout 2013 and Edinburgh was the only UK destination to win an award. As the only port operator in the United Kingdom that can offer direct access to two capital cities, Forth Ports also had an extremely successful season, welcoming 130 cruise liners in 2013 and bringing over 130,000 visitors to the UK.

Commenting on the win, Nik Scott-Gray, Business Development Manager at Forth Ports, said: “We are absolutely thrilled to win this award from Cruise Insight Magazine. We do everything we can to make sure that all of our cruise operators and their passengers are well looked-after during their call at our ports and our programme of continued investment will ensure an even better cruise experience in the future at Leith and all our other cruise destinations including Rosyth, Dundee and London.”

Forth Ports’ 2014 cruise season got underway on the 27th March with the MV Discovery calling at the Port of Rosyth.

The business is investing significantly in the cruise operations with a multimillion pound renovation project underway at the historic London cruise terminal to upgrade the facilities and increase the capacity to accommodate larger vessels. In Scotland, a programme of alternative deep water anchorage options and landing stages is being developed to bring larger liners closer to Edinburgh.



About Forth Ports:
Forth Ports owns and operates eight commercial ports in the UK – Tilbury on the Thames, Dundee on the Firth of Tay and six on the Firth of Forth – Leith, Grangemouth, Rosyth, Methil, Burntisland and Kirkcaldy. It also has a business, Nordic, which operates out of Chatham in Kent and Tilbury, which is engaged in port activities and recycling.

Within and around the Firths of Forth and Tay, Forth Ports manages and operates an area of 280 square miles of navigable waters, including two specialised marine terminals for oil and gas export and provides other marine services, such as towage and conservancy.
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