ONE of the highlights of Carnival Corporation’s return to sailing in Australia will be its christening of the Brisbane International Cruise Terminal (BICT), with the company’s P&O Australia’s Pacific Explorer to be the first leisure vessel to utilise the facility when it arrives for the first time later this week....
ONE of the highlights of Carnival Corporation’s return to sailing in Australia will be its christening of the Brisbane International Cruise Terminal (BICT), with the company’s P&O Australia’s Pacific Explorer to be the first leisure vessel to utilise the facility when it arrives for the first time later this week.
Speaking to the media at White Bay Cruise Terminal on Fri, Carnival President Australia Marguerite Fitzgerald said Explorer’s impending arrival in Brisbane would be the start of a relationship which has been frustratingly delayed due to the pandemic.
“It’s fantastic,” Fitzgerald said, “that’s what Carnival planned when we originally created our relationship with the Brisbane International Cruise Terminal.
“We are going to be running more than 100 calls there every year, and so this is just the first of many, and the economic activity it brings back to Queenslanders.”
Fitzgerald and many members of the Carnival team and suppliers were at White Bay on Fri to witness Explorer being stocked with essentials ahead of her first voyage – more broken ground for the Australian cruise industry’s restart.
“Today’s big delivery of produce to Pacific Explorer is where cruising and economic opportunity meet,” she said.
“It is also strong confirmation of the multiplier effect of cruise tourism and the diversity of the cruising ecosystem.”
Pictured is Fitzgerald with Hotel Director Kevin Boag and P&O celebrity chef Luke Mangan.
