{"id":3298,"date":"2019-10-08T13:46:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T10:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/?p=3298"},"modified":"2019-10-08T13:46:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T10:46:06","slug":"carnival-corp-breaks-ground-on-new-cruise-terminal-in-sasebo-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/carnival-corp-breaks-ground-on-new-cruise-terminal-in-sasebo-japan\/3298\/","title":{"rendered":"Carnival Corp Breaks Ground on New Cruise Terminal in Sasebo, Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Miami-based Carnival Corporation has launched the construction of the cruise industry\u2019s first cruise terminal in Japan, located at the port of Sasebo.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company held a groundbreaking ceremony, attended by government, business and community representatives, on October 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of a strategic partnership agreement signed in March 2018 with the city of Sasebo and MLIT Japan, Carnival Corporation will construct and operate the new terminal, expected to open in summer 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the 20-year agreement, Carnival Corporation and its cruise line brands will be granted berthing preference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cThis new terminal will complement our strong presence in the Asia-Pacific region \u2026 And as our company\u2019s first cruise terminal investment in Japan, we are excited to mark the start of our long-term relationship,\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;Michael Thamm, group CEO, Costa Group and Carnival Asia, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company said it would continue to work with Japan\u2019s government and MLIT to identify potential additional port development opportunities and future investments in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, Carnival Corporation expects to accommodate an estimated 2 million passenger movements in the market in 2019, with nearly 800 calls from 15 ships from the company\u2019s cruise line brands to over 50 ports in Japan.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miami-based Carnival Corporation has launched the construction of the cruise industry\u2019s first cruise terminal in Japan, located at the port of Sasebo. The company held a groundbreaking ceremony, attended by government, business and community representatives, on October 7. As part of a strategic partnership agreement signed in March 2018 with the city of Sasebo and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,20],"tags":[651,160,626],"class_list":["post-3298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","category-news","tag-carnival-corp","tag-japan","tag-miami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/3299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}