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Al via the executive planning of the new terminal cruises of the port of Charleston
The landing place will be inaugurated in the third trimester of 2012
March 17, 2011
The South Carolina State Ports Authority (SCSPA) has assigned to an American consortium composed by the CH2M Hill and local companies LS3P Associates, Collins Engineers, DesignWorks and Thomas & Hutton the task to define the executive project of the new terminal terminal cruises Union Pier of the port of Charleston ( on 22 January 2010).
The harbour authority has announced that the progettuale activity, that will have a cost of 2,4 million dollars, will begin already this month and that the work to the new terminal, that they preview the fleeting conversion and restructure to the traffic of the existing structures, will be started this year with the objective to inaugurate the work in the third trimester of 2012.
The new Union Pier will replace the current passenger terminal of the port American who is constructed almost 40 years ago.
The crocieristica activity to Charleston gives job to beyond 400 people and in 2010 it has generated a volume of transactions of 37 million dollars, between which 16 million dollars of salaries and 3,5 million dollars of Internal Revenue. According to the forecasts, the new terminal will allow to generate an economic impulse of the value of 43 million dollars and to create beyond job 300 places.
This year 90 ports of call of cruise ships to the port of Charleston are programmed.
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The South Carolina State Ports Authority (SCSPA) has assigned to an American consortium composed by the CH2M Hill and local companies LS3P Associates, Collins Engineers, DesignWorks and Thomas & Hutton the task to define the executive project of the new terminal terminal cruises Union Pier of the port of Charleston 
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
