Media Release

Mangaluru, Dec 9: MV AIDA AURA, one of the luxury vessels of Aida Cruises, called at the port on Wednesday December 9 with 1145 cruise passengers and 411crew on board the vessel.

This was tenth voyage of the vessel at New Mangalore Port (NMP) and is scheduled for six more calls during the current financial year. 749  passengers opted for ground tour and visited places in and around Mangalore such as 1000 pillar temple at Moodbidri, Soans farm, cashew factories, St Aloysius chapel, Gokarnanatha temple, Kadri Manjunatha temple, City Market shopping etc and returned to the vessel and sailed off to Goa.

The itinerary of the vessel is Dubai-Mumbai-Mangalore-Goa-Muscat. Majority of the passengers are from Germany. This is the 11th  cruise vessel  calling at the port during the current financial year  2015-16. JM Baxi are the agents of the vessel &  Globe Travels are  the ground tour operator.

The port is witnessing the arrival of more number of cruise vessels due  to the availability of infrastructure like state of the art cruise lounge accommodated with immigration counter, foreign exchange facility, duty free shops, handicraft boutique, and above all clean and green environment inside the port area. 

It is expected to handle more cruise vessels in the months to come.