AIVP in Porto for a cruise benchmarking exercise

The event took place on Monday 30 September and Tuesday 1 October. It was the last stage of a cruise benchmarking process carried out by AIVP at the request of stakeholders in Le Havre. The aim of the exercise was to support efforts to create conditions for sustainable development of the vibrant cruise activity in Le Havre by the period 2020-2025, and to make the area around the cruise ship docks a real asset contributing to the attractiveness of the City Port of Le Havre. The benchmarking exercise was intended to identify practices and solutions deployed to improve the spatial integration of cruise terminals in the city and open them up to the public, both during and outside the cruise season. The “cruise benchmark” working group had selected Porto and the Port of Leixoes as the site of a field assignment, from a shortlist of six port cities in…