![]() “It’s living up to budget and very, very strong passenger counts,” Murray said. The port’s budget projects operating revenue of nearly $190 million through the end of the fiscal year in September. With cruise numbers from the first four months of the fiscal year, from October-January, Canaveral has already had 307 cruise ship calls with 2.5 million passengers. “That’s our most valuable asset in this port … and deep-water bulkheads are for ships.” “This is a strategic direction that we started a couple of years ago, and that is to optimize the use of our deep-water bulkheads,” he said. The port’s last new cruise terminal, Cruise Terminal 3, home to Carnival’s Mardi Gras, took about 16 months to turn around from when the port broke ground in March 2019.Ĭommissioner Wayne Justice reiterated his support of moving the small-boat business in favor of supporting the cruise industry. “During this process, we’re doing everything we can to mitigate impacts to users - improve the waterway access, etc.” Murray said, noting that the first step is to take over the Cape Marina property, “and then ultimately bring in the Bluepoints footprint over to that side and develop for multiple years.”Ĭruise terminal construction could take place in tandem. The port intends to ask for bids in redeveloping the Cape Marina property once the lease has ended, and Cape Marina is welcome to participate in the bid process, Murray said. So we are working to make sure that that is accommodated and we want to redevelop that district.” A lot of the folks that bring product in for seafood Atlantic have their boats in this area. “We are also supporting our commercial fishing trade. Our goal is to improve the efficiency of the existing acreage and uplands at that end of the port,” Murray said. The port’s goal is not to reduce the access or number of customers it can support as it ventures into the disruptive major construction the future cruise terminal would require. At that point, (Bluepoints) are out and we have the facility, so we’d like to advance everything as much as we can so that there’s plenty of time to build another facility and accommodate the folks … at Bluepoints today,” Murray said.
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