Port of Baltimore ipeza mlendo wake woyamba wapaulendo wapamadzi chaka chonse pomwe Carnival Cruise Lines idzakhazikika pamenepo mu Seputembara 2009, akuluakulu aboma adatero Lachinayi, kubweretsa kukwera kwachuma m'boma.
"Carnival Pride" idzayamba kuyenda maulendo amasiku asanu ndi awiri kuchokera ku Baltimore sabata iliyonse mpaka August 2011, kuonjezera kwambiri chiwerengero cha maulendo otuluka padoko. Royal Caribbean International ndi Norwegian Cruise Line zimagwira ntchito padoko kuyambira Epulo mpaka Okutobala.
Jim White, wamkulu wa Maryland Port Administration, adati pali maulendo 27 omwe akuyenera kuchoka ku Baltimore chaka chino. Mu 2009, White adanena kuti chiwerengerochi chidzawirikiza kawiri ndi kuwonjezera kwa Carnival ndi maulendo ena owonjezera omwe anakonzedwa ndi Royal Caribbean ndi Norwegian.
Makampani oyenda panyanja adawononga ndalama zokwana $56 miliyoni mu 2006, adatero.
"Tikukamba za kuwirikiza kawiri voliyumu, kotero nditha kunena mosavuta tikhala tikuchulukitsa phindu lazachuma ku boma," adatero White. "Tidzayamba kuwona izi mu 2009. Mu 2010 tikukhulupirira kuti zikhala zamphamvu kwambiri."
Gov. Martin O'Malley adatcha chisankho cha Carnival choyambitsa kuchokera ku Baltimore, "chipambano chachikulu ku boma la Maryland."
Carnival ikuyembekeza kukopa anthu 40 miliyoni mkati mwa maola asanu ndi limodzi kuti adumphe msewu wodutsa dziko kapena kuthawira kumadera otentha ndikuchoka ku Baltimore m'malo mwake.
“Anthu ambiri akulimbana ndi mavuto a ndege ndi kukwera mtengo kwa ndege,” anatero mneneri wa Carnival Jennifer de la Cruz.
Ngakhale Baltimore atha kuonedwa ngati chisankho chachilendo paulendo wapanyanja chaka chonse chifukwa chakuzizira kwambiri, de la Cruz adati kampaniyo ikuyembekeza kuchita bwino.
“Ife [tikhala] tikugwira ntchito kuchokera ku madoko 17 osiyanasiyana akunyumba; izi zakhala zopambana kwa ife kupitilira kupitilira madoko apamadzi achikhalidwe," adatero.
Kampaniyo ipereka maulendo awiri kuchokera ku Baltimore, onse osalowera ku Caribbean. Ulendo umodzi udzayima ku Grand Turk, Turks & Caicos ndi Freeport ku Bahamas. Ulendo wina udzayima ku Port Canaveral, Fla., Ndi Nassau ndi Freeport ku Bahamas.
Carnival nthawi zambiri imatchedwa njira yochezera mabanja, motero de la Cruz adati kampaniyo sayenera kupikisana ndi Norway ndi Royal Caribbean, yomwe imathandizira anthu osiyanasiyana apaulendo.
"Msewu uliwonse wapanyanja ndi wosiyana," adatero. "Mukakhala wogwira ntchito chaka chonse kuchokera kudoko mumakhala ndi mwayi wapadera ... anthu akamaganiza za Baltimore, amaganiza za Carnival chifukwa ndife osewera chaka chonse."
Ngakhale Carnival sayembekezera kuchita ntchito zambiri m'derali, kuwonjezera kwa zombo zake kudzalimbikitsa bizinesi kwa stevedores, oyendetsa ma cab ndi mahotela.
"Nthawi iliyonse tikamakwera sitima pamalo pomwe pamakhala mavuto azachuma," adatero de la Cruz. “Doko lakunyumba ndi komwe ogwira ntchito amagula zinthu zawo zambiri, ndipo amakonda kugula. Amakonda kutsika m'sitimayo tikamakwera ndikugunda mashopu onse am'deralo. ”
Sara Perkins, mwini wa CruiseOne, kampani yoyendera maulendo ku Abingdon, adati chifukwa cha zomwe adakumana nazo, akuyembekeza kuti Carnival ikhale yopambana kwambiri ku Baltimore.
"Carnival inabwera kuno zaka zingapo zapitazo ndipo idasefukira chifukwa inali sitima yatsopano, yosiyana, mtengo unali wotsika mtengo," adatero Perkins.
Kuwonjeza sitima ina ku khola kudzalimbikitsa bizinesi kwa Perkins, yemwe adati ngakhale chuma chikuyenda pang'onopang'ono, anthu akuyendabe.
"Kuyenda panyanja ndi mtengo wabwino pa dola yanu chifukwa chilichonse chili ndi inu," adatero. "Ndikudziwa kuti anthu omwe akutuluka ku Baltimore akufera chombo china."
Ngakhale Perkins adati ndiwosangalala ndi nkhani yaulendo wina wobwera mtawuniyi, alibe nazo ntchito.
Iye anati: “Ndimakhudzidwa pang’ono ndi pulogalamu ya chaka chonse. “Mukachoka kuno mu January, February ndi March, kunja sikutentha.”
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