Way back in 2001, when the first cruise liner called at Kochi port, the port authorities had laid a good deal of emphasis on providing personal services to those on board. The effort has not been in vain. Today, Kochi is the focus of cruise tourism in India. This has been possible because the port has set new benchmark in providing highly professional services for the country’s other ports to follow.
The initiative included a setting up of a dedicated cruise cell offering single window clearance in presence of the officials of the port, Customs, Immigration and CISF on the one hand and the tourism department, tour operators, vessel agents, stevedores providing labour pool and the taxi and auto-rickshaw drivers, on the other. No wonder, Kochi has emerged as the country’s most-preferred cruise destination.
To cap it all, the seamless integration of all the Government agencies has been singularly responsible for facilitating novel cruise tourism such as Fly-Cruise-Fly, turnaround operation as well as home porting of cruise vessels at Kochi.
The post facility, set up on 1,600 sq mt area, is fully air-conditioned, with all modern amenities, such as duty-free shops, cafeteria/souvenir shops, customs and immigration clearance facilities and X-ray scanning machines for baggage of embarking and disembarking passengers, among others.
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