"Marine Facade" found himself the official taxi

Management Company Marine Facade "held a contest for the right to provide taxi services to passengers of cruise liners in 2010. The winner was a non-profit partnership "The official taxi Petersburg.

Profit Partnership "The official taxi Petersburg" (includes 20 companies) received the right to work in the port, which manages the "Marine Facade", in 2010.

This year's "Marine Facade" awaiting the arrival of 170 ships (about 350 thousand passengers). If half of them make use of taxi services at an average cost of $ 20, then the turnover of the market could reach 3.5 million U.S. dollars.

Now most of the passengers from the port pick up bus tour operators. In the period of navigation in 2009 in the port to operate the company "New Yellow Taxi" and "Taxi-Suite" (included in a competing partnership League taxi "). As said Nikolai Frolov, an expert department of "Marine Facade", a change of the carrier due to the fact that the winner made the port a more advantageous offer.

In 2009, the carriers to get to the port area, buying a pass. According predsedatelyanekommercheskogo partnership Yuri Veykova, taxi drivers, transport costs inflated by the resale of these omissions. Now, the permit system abolished. All machines NP will receive orders in the port through the dispatcher.

Company general director of "Taxi-Lux Gennady Belozovsky assures that did not get upset because of the departure from the port. For 5 months of navigating the company received 15 orders a day. But in 2010, navigation is open 12 months and starts the second passenger terminal. The potential capacity of the port of 1.5 million people.