MSC Cruises have announced that next year the luxurious cruise liner MSC Fantasia will be calling on a weekly basis at Malta’s Grand Harbour between 22 April – 4 November 2015.

MSC Cruises also confirmed that during 2015, they would not only be coming to Malta with the MSC Armonia but also with one of their flagships, the 140,000 tonnes mega liner – the MSC Fantasia – carrying 4,200 passengers weekly on Wednesday, for a total of 32 weeks.

It will be a return to to Malta for the ship, having already used to call at Malta’s Grand Harbour every week during 2011.

Earlier this year Hamilton Travel held discussions at MSCs Headquarters with the Group’s Executive Chairman Pier Francesco Vago and CEO Gianni Onorato. During these talks, MSC announced that between 2017 and 2020 they would be increasing their current fleet of 12 cruise liners by another 4 mega cruisers, which would be amongst the largest and most luxurious in the Mediterranean.

MSC Cruises said that they were invited to rethink on their decision of not including Malta as a regular weekly destination.

Early in 2012 MSC Cruises had announced that as from 2013 it would be dropping a port of call from their weekly cruising itineraries. Unfortunately, Malta was the port to be abandoned by MSC in 2013 during their Western Mediterranean cruises.

“Treading cautiously in 2014,” MSC Cruises returned to Malta carrying 51,000 passengers on one of their smaller liners – the MSC Lirica. The operation proved quite successful with 2,500 Maltese embarking on 7 night cruises.

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