Cruise ship Costa Pacifica to call on Freeport of Riga on May 5, 2013
Cruise ship Costa Pacifica will call on Freeport of Riga on May 5, 2013, the port administration informs.
Costa Pacifica is 290 meters long and 35 meters wide. Its capacity is 3,700 passengers. It is the largest cruise ship to call on the port of Riga. For the first time Costa Pacifica arrived in Riga on May 25, 2011.
Freeport of Riga lies on both banks of the River Daugava covering 6.3 hectares. The port’s berth length is 13,800 meters, maximum draft at the berths is 12.2 meters. Up to 80% of the Freeport of Riga cargo turnover is made up of transit cargoes forwarded to or received from the CIS countries. In 2012, Freeport of Riga increased its throughput by 5.8%, year-on-year, to 36,051,900 tonnes of cargo. The port serviced 815,000 passengers (+5%), including 83,000 cruise passengers (+30.8%).
