PORT CANAVERAL, Fla. — Port Canaveral is already home to 16 homeported ships, and the port is looking for ways to accommodate even more.
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Port leaders are turning their attention to the port’s oldest and smallest cruise facility, Cruise Terminal Five.
Canaveral Port Authority CEO Capt. John Murray told us today, “So, we’re looking at how we can expand that terminal and make it larger. The berth itself is capable of handling larger ships, but it’s the terminal itself that’s the restricting factor. So, we’re looking at what we can do to make that more viable, to give us more options and our cruise partners more options to bring ships to Port Canaveral.”
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Just last week, port commissioners approved design work for Cruise Terminal Five.
There was also some conversation about Cruise Terminal Two. Victory Casino Cruises is currently its tenant through 2030.
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Murray said, “So, it’s into the future. But there’s some things like an underwater cable that needs to be moved. And we haven’t done any of the core sampling for dredging, which takes time. And these are all long lead time items. So, our goal is to start the conceptual design and do some of these projects that we can do now that you know will be ready when it’s time to move forward.”
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Cruise industry expert Stewart Chiron, better known as the “Cruise Guy” told us late this afternoon, “Demand is strong. I mean, today NCL (Norwegian Cruise Line) confirmed four of the ten ships that they ordered. They were supposed to be all 200,000 tons are going to be 226,000 tons. They’re going to each cost over 2.1 billion. and they got to put them somewhere.”
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