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Cruise News for the Corporate Travel Professional |
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Port Everglades has announced its third consecutive year of growth |
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The number of multi-day cruise passengers grew slightly with
3,689,000 cruise guests sailing to and from the South Florida seaport during
FY2012, up from 3,664,000 the prior fiscal year. The number of multi-day
passengers has risen by nearly 60 percent in the past 10 years and is expected
to climb gradually to more than 5 million by 2029, according to a marketing
forecast prepared as part of the Port’s 20-year Master/Vision Plan approved by
the Broward County Board of County Commissioners in 2011. Port Everglades just completed a $54 million renovation project that upgraded and modernized four existing cruise terminals – terminals 2, 19, 21 and 26 – in time for the busy 2012-2013 winter cruise season. The renovated cruise terminals will be used primarily by Carnival Corporation cruise lines in conjunction with the company’s long-term agreement with the Port. In addition, the Port will be able to accommodate more, higher capacity cruise ships within the next five years as Port Everglades completes a project to lengthen an existing cruise berth by 250 feet and renovate the adjacent Cruise Terminal 4. Daily cruise ship passenger traffic has dropped off in recent years since the Port’s daily cruise lines – Discovery Cruises and SeaEscape – stopped operating in September 2011 and August 2008, respectively. However, Balerida group, a ferry operator in the Mediterranean for 13 years, began a new high-speed ferry service to the Bahamas from Port Everglades this past year using the 463-passenger fast-ferry Pinar del Rio that takes approximately 2-3 hours to reach Grand Bahama Island. As this service and a second Balearia service to Bimini (the Bahamas) set to launch in 2013 become established, daily passenger counts are expected to grow. |
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