Hambantota Port receives 6000 cruise passengers

There were six cruise ship calls at the Hambantota International Port (HIP) in the months of January and February 2024, carrying over 6,000 passengers to Sri Lanka.
Celebrity Millennium, the largest of the cruise ships that called, sailing between the lines of Hambantota/Colombo and Phuket, Thailand, arrived at the port twice, on 
February 14 and 26, respectively.
Silver Moon, also bound for Phuket, called at HIP on February 20, arriving from the Colombo Port.  
The January visits included two calls by Le Jacques Cartier, a class ‘A’ passenger vessel sailing under the Wallis Futuna Island flag and Riviera, which arrived in Sri Lanka 
from the Maldives. 
Riviera set sail from HIP to Phuket, while Le Jacques Cartier visited the Galle, Trincomalee and 
Colombo ports.