The vote is the latest step in the Dutch capital's long-running campaign to reduce the impact of tourism. The council’s call is to relocate the terminal – and we await a follow up from the alderman on investigations,” he wrote in an email response.ĭe Graaff said that the Amsterdam terminal expects 114 ships to stop there this year and 130 next year. “There is no immediate closing of the terminal. In any case, as far as we are concerned, large ships no longer moor in the city center of Amsterdam.”Ĭan we have eco-friendly cruising? What to know about zero-emission shipsĭick de Graaff, director of Cruise Port Amsterdam that operates the terminal in the city center, told the AP the company had taken note of the vote and is awaiting the municipality's next move. “The municipal executive of Amsterdam is now going to work on how to implement it. “A clear decision has been made by the council that the cruise (terminal) should leave the city,” Ilana Rooderkerk, leader of the centrist D66 party in Amsterdam, told The Associated Press in an email on Friday. The Dutch capital is one of the many picturesque European cities – from Rome to Venice to Paris – grappling with how to manage visitor numbers that are again soaring in the aftermath of shutdowns during the coronavirus pandemic.Īldermen at Amsterdam's municipality voted Thursday in favor of a motion calling on the city to move the terminal away from its current location close to the central rail station. Watch Video: Royal Caribbean finishes construction of world's biggest cruise shipĪMSTERDAM - Amsterdam wants to move a cruise liner terminal out of the heart of the historic capital city as the latest step in its ongoing battle against pollution and hordes of tourists clogging its narrow, cobbled streets.
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