Global Ports, Grupo Sousa, Royal Caribbean and Creuers of the Port of the Barcelona will manage the new Lisbon Cruise Terminal



A consortium participated with 40% from the terminalista society Global Holding Ports (GPH) of the Turkish group Global Holding Yatirim, with 30% from the marine-harbour group portuguese Humpbacked dolphins, with 20% from the American crocieristico group Royal Caribbean Cruises and with 10% from the terminalista society Spanish Creuers of the Port of the Barcelona, than in its turn is participated with 43% from joint venture Barcelona Port Investments constituted from same the Royal Caribbean and GPH, is selected unanimously by the board of directors of the Administração gives Porto de Lisboa which preferential offerer in the within of the procedure of contest for the allocation of the contract of type Built Operate Transfer (BOT) relative to the Lisbon Cruise Terminal, the new terminal cruises of the port of Lisbon whose construction will begin in the next weeks and will be concluded within the end of 2015.

The contract, whose subscription will happen after the pronunciamento of the State Audit Court and the Authority of the Competition and that it will have a duration 35-year-old, will presee that the consortium initially backs a fixed annual canon of 300 thousand euros to the Harbour Authority of Lisbon more a fixed variable tax to 0,22 euros for every passenger. Moreover the portuguese harbour agency will receive fees for services returned to the consortium, services - it has specified the authority - whose value in 2013 is piled to about 2,5 million euros.

The offer introduced from the consortium previews an investment for the construction of the new terminal cruises for a value estimated from the Harbour Authority pairs to about 22,7 million euros.

Three of the four members of the consortium manage passenger terminal: Creuers of the Port of the Barcelona work terminal in Spain, to Barcelona and Malaga, and Singapore; Global Holding Ports manages terminal in Turkey, to Kusadasi, Bodrum and Antalya; Royal Caribbean Cruises participates to the management of terminal in Italy (Civitavecchia and Naples), in the United States (Port Everglades, Fort Lauderdale and Liberty Chief), in Mexico (Costa Maya and Langosta), Honduras (Roatan), Belize (Belize) and Turkey (Kusadasi). Moreover the Grupo Sousa is active in the transport fleeting enlivening about 300 thousand fleeting per year on the line Saint Port.

Thanks to the new investments in the crocieristico field the Harbour Authority of Lisbon previews that the current annual traffic of about 550 thousand fleeting enlivened in the portuguese port will go up in ten years to beyond 750 thousand fleeting and, to the term of the duration of the contract of concession of the Lisboa Cruise Terminal, will arrive to beyond 1,5 million passengers. The harbour agency has emphasized that medium every passenger spends about 118 euros to Lisbon and that the expense of every member of the crews of the ships is of about 21 euros.