Kaohsiung Port's "Double" Travel Center is formed (red circle), which can accommodate up to 4 international cruise ships at the same time.

On the right is the Kaohsiung Port Transportation Center where the Seven Seas Explorer is docked, and on the left is the Penglai Travel Transportation Center where the Westerdam is docked.

(Provided by Kaohsiung Port Branch)

[Reporter Hong Dinghong/Kaohsiung Report] The national border is unsealed, and the Taiwan Port Corporation's offer to reduce the "dock anchorage fee" and "passenger service fee" preferential plan has worked. International cruise ships have come to Taiwan. At present, Kaohsiung Port has the most voyages in the forecast, so it will expand the original The space of the Penglai Travel Transportation Center is matched with the newly opened Kaohsiung Port Travel Transportation Center to form a "double" travel transportation center, which can accommodate up to 4 international cruise ships at the same time.

The Taiwan Port Authority pointed out that the Penglai Travel Transport Center is located at Nos. 8, 9 and 10, with a length of 442 meters and can accommodate small and medium-sized cruise ships. Piers 17 to 21 have a length of 726 meters and can accommodate the largest cruise ships with a capacity of 250,000 tons.

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In fact, on March 6, the day when the Kaohsiung Port Travel Center was opened, the "Double" Travel Center was already in "trial operation". center.

Taking Nautica as an example, the top-class cruise ship is 181 meters in length. The "double" travel center can accommodate four cruise ships of similar specifications at the same time, and can be flexibly adjusted according to the needs of large, medium and small cruise ships.

Keelung Port also has the function of a "double" tourist center. The east coast and west coast tourist centers are each about 500 meters long. The west coast tourist center can also berth the largest cruise ship with a capacity of 250,000 tons.

In order to attract international cruise ships to Taiwan, the Taiwan Port Corporation team split up and joined forces to recruit abroad, and offered a preferential plan to reduce the "dock anchorage fee" and "passenger service fee". "Taiwan, together with the Tourism Bureau of the Ministry of Communications and the Port Bureau, will go to Miami, USA to participate in the Global Cruise Show, and the results are expected.

The Kaohsiung Port Travel Transportation Center where the Seven Seas Explorer docked.

(Photo by reporter Li Huizhou)

The Penglai Travel Transport Center where the Westerdam docked.

(Photo by reporter Li Huizhou)