P&O Cruises’ Pacific Eden will trial partial turnarounds at Townsville from Sep 2018, where around 400 pax will embark or disembark, marking the first time pax will be able to board there.
Port of Townsville Limited ceo Ranee Crosby said the announcement “is a huge step forward towards achieving the end goal of home porting”.
A spokesperson for P&O Cruises said the “trial in Townsville could serve as a guide to local potential” but “we don’t want to get too far ahead of ourselves in raising expectations that Townsville will ultimately become a turnaround port in our future cruise programs beyond 2018”.