6,000 cruise ship passengers arrive at Hambantota Port

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Celebrity Millennium the largest of the cruise ships to call at Hambantota port

Hambantota Interna-tional Port (HIP) said yesterday there were six cruise ship calls in January and February carrying over 6,000 passengers to Sri Lanka.

It said the Celebrity Millennium, largest of the cruise ships that called, sailing between the lines of Hambantota/Colombo and Phuket, Thailand arrived at the port twice, on 14 and 26 February respectively. The Silver Moon also bound for Phuket called at HIP on 20 February arriving from the Colombo Port.

The January visits included two calls by Le Jacques Cartier, a class ‘A’ passenger vessel sailing under the Wallis Futuna Island flag and the Riviera which arrived in Sri Lanka from the Maldives. The Riviera set sail from HIP to Phuket, while the Le Jacques Cartier visited the Galle, Trincomalee and Colombo ports.