Infrastructure Minister Austin Gatt told Parliament that a buoy to facilitate the berthing of cruise liners outside Xlendi, in Gozo, will be laid in mid-2009. Its use would be limited to cruise liners up to 20,000 tons displacement and 130 metres in length.

Answering a parliamentary question by Anton Refalo (PL), Dr Gatt said cruise liner passengers would be ferried to and from land on the ships' own tenders, and would embark and disembark on the existing jetty in Xlendi Bay.

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