CELEBRITY APEX First Call at Porto Cruise Terminal

Tuesday, September 20, 2022 - 17:20 by leixoes

On September 17, the Porto Cruise Terminal welcomed the inaugural call of the CELEBRITY APEX cruise ship.
The ship was on a 12 days voyage from Amsterdam to Civitavecchia (Rome) with almost 2.700 passengers on board, mostly from North America.
This itinerary included visits to La Rochelle, Bilbao, La Coruña, Lisbon, Cadiz, Gibraltar and Cartagena.
The CELEBRITY APEX is one of the newest ships operated by Celebrity Cruises and is 306 meters long and 130.818 GT.
As usual, a Plaques Exchange Ceremony was held at the Porto Cruise Terminal with Port Authorities and ship’s Captain celebrating the first visit of CELEBRITY APEX to the port.

CELEBRITY APEX First Call at Porto Cruise Terminal

Celebrity Apex at the Porto Cruise Terminal (c) Port of Leixões

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The Porto Cruise Terminal (Port of Leixões) is the main gateway by sea to Porto – the city of the Port Wine and the appropriate place to welcome all passengers from cruise liners. Equipped with comfortable facilities for tourists, Leixões features two cruise terminals. The Leixões Passenger Terminal is a wooden construction that resembles a ship’s hull, and is considered an important architectural and historical heritage. Since April 2011, it is in operation a new cruise quay 340m long and 300m length for berth (up to 320m upon request). Since then, the biggest and the most glamorous cruise ships from the worldwide cruise fleet are welcome here, boosting the cruise tourism in the North of Portugal region. The Porto Cruise Terminal it is in full operation since March 2015 and the main building has a capacity for 2.500 passengers in turnaround. Porto Cruise Terminal was planned to improve the whole cruise visitor experience!