MARGAO: There's finally good news in store for tourists and travelers on the Goa-Mumbai route. Union Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday announced that the cruise service from Mumbai to Goa will start from the first week of December.
The Minister further informed that an order has been passed to reduce the port charges for cruise services. While saying that port charges has been made uniform for all ports, he said a detailed road map has been prepared for the development of cruise tourism. "The cruise service between Mumbai-Goa will start from December 1. This will give a boost for tourism. The cruise ship is owned by a Goan" he said, and in a lighter vein said there's seems no opposition for the cruise service in Goa.
Gadkari said that work on the cruise terminal at Mumbai will get underway at Mumbai in the near future.
