The AIDAcosma cruise ship docked today, Wednesday, for the first time in the port of Santa Cruz of Tenerife on a stopover that also represents its first partial base port activity on the Island. Starting next Wednesday it will make a full base port, disembarking and boarding the entire passage.
Coming from Puerto del Rosario (Fuerteventura), it arrived early in the morning with 5,459 passengers and 1,454 crew members on board and will remain docked until 10:00 p.m. at the Ribera Pier, with the Tenerife Cruise Terminal serving this service. Of the total number of passengers, 1,476 cruise passengers have completed their trip, while 1,427 will begin it this afternoon from the port of Santa Cruz, with the rest of them following the established weekly route.
Until its season in Tenerife ends, on April 24, the AIDAcosma will make a weekly crossing that will take it from Tenerife to the ports of Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, Gran Canaria and Madeira, to return to the Island every Wednesday.
This cruise ship measures 337 meters in length, 42 meters in width and has a gross weight of 183,774 tons. Twin of the AidaNova, the Aidacosma is also supplied today at the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) port, being the second ship of the same shipping company to choose the Tenerife port to carry out such operations.
The AIDAcosma thus joins six other ships with home port operations in Tenerife this season, specifically the AIDAnova, AIDAstella, Island Sky, Azura, Marella Explorer and La Belle des Oceans.
As is customary on each first stopover, representatives of the Tenerife Port Authority presented the captain of the ship, Tommy Möller, with the commemorative metope of this first visit, an event in which representatives of the consignee Pérez y Cía were also present. in Tenerife.
