<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: normal;"><strong><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="font-size:18px;">Silversea opts for Asia over congested Sydney</span></span></strong><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: normal;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: normal;">Sydney: Sydney’s congested cruise facilities have seen one line shun Australiasia in favour of Asia. Silversea has decided to ditch plans for a number of Sydney and Auckland voyages this year in favour of keeping a ship, Silver Wind, in Asia.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: normal;">“That ship is going to concentrate more on Asia, and particularly on Myanmar which has become the really hot ticket,” senior vice president UK, Europe &amp; Asia Pacific Steve Odell told media in Sydney on Thursday.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: normal;">“Frankly speaking, we will miss having the Sydney and Auckland cruises, but Sydney is becoming increasingly difficult as a destination to find berths, it’s expensive and from an operational point of view, it can be more profitable going to these other kinds of destinations.”&nbsp; [29/08/14]</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: normal;"><br></p>