TUI Line’s super luxury passenger cruiser MV Mein Schiff 1 calls Colombo

MV Mein Schiff 1, a Century class cruise ship, owned and operated by TUI Cruises, arrived in Colombo last week.

Having sailed from Mumbai on 15 November, she berthed at the Unity Container Terminal of Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) at 7 a.m.

Built at Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany, the vessel has a LOA of 265 m and a passenger capacity of 1,950. The vessel arrived with 1872 passengers on board and around 1500 of them embarked on shore excursions that included Kandy, the historic capital of Central Sri Lanka.    

Having originally served with Celebrity Cruises, she was transferred to the fleet of TUI Cruises in 2009. MV Mein Schiff 1 offers a wide range of amusement, leisure and sport amenities that makes every sailing a very special experience, for both adults and children.

A ceremony was held on board to mark her maiden call in Colombo and plaques were exchanged between the Sri Lanka Ports Authority, the local agents and the Vessel’s Command. On behalf of Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) plaques were exchanged between SLPA Executive Director Sanjeewa Wijeratne and Master of the vessel Capt. Rolf Noack whilst plaques were exchanged between Shipping Agency Services Ltd. Executive Director Capt. L.N. Jayasooriya and the Master of the vessel on behalf of the local agents. 

The vessel has left Colombo headed towards her next destination Langkawi, in Malaysia. The vessel was represented in Colombo by Shipping Agency Services Ltd. and ground tours were handled by Aitken Spence Travels Ltd. Friendly discussions were also born onboard MV Mein Chiff 1 in Colombo between the Master of the vessel, the vessel operators and SLPA on Sri Lanka’s emerging trades of travel and tourism and satisfactory services being rendered by Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) to boost tourism and related industries at its premises.

SLPA was represented by Executive Director Sanjeewa Wijeratne, Actg. Director (Operations) Jayantha Perera, Director (Logistics) Upali De Zoysa, Harbour Master Capt. Ravi Jayawickrama, Chief Operations Manager (Conventional Cargo) Nimal Jayatissa, Chief Security Manager – Air Commodore Channa Premarathne and Manager (Communications and Public Relations) Harsha Peiris at the event.