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Royal Caribbean Cruises will construct and manage new a great terminal cruises in the port of Miami
Previewed an investment of 200 million dollars. The landing place will be completed at the end of 2018
June 29, 2016
Caribbean Cruises (RCL) will construct and manage new a great terminal cruises in the port of Miami, project for which has signed an agreement with the County of Miami-Dade that will rent the area on which the terminal to the American crocieristico group will rise. The new landing place will be used as home port of the ships of Royal Caribbean International, brand of group RCL.
The project will have to be approved of from the commission directive of the County in the reunion in program next the 6 July. The start of the construction is previewed in the first trimester of the next year and the completion of the project will happen in the course of the last trimester of 2018.
Specifying that from private part the investment will pile to 200 million dollars and will allow to make of Miami the first world-wide crocieristico port, the president of the County of Miami-Dade, Carlos Gimenez, have emphasized that "this partnership public-private will have an estimated economic impact in 500 million dollars and will generate about job 4.000 places".
The new terminal, that it will occupy an area of about 16.000 square metres and is christened Crown of Miami, is planned by the British study of architecture Broadway Malyan. Currently Royal Caribbean enlivens in the fleeting port of Miami about 750 thousand per year, figure that almost 15% of the 4.916.000 crocieristi enlivened in the port of Miami in 2015 represent, and with the new terminal it is previewed that the traffic of single group RCL will go up to 1,8 million crocieristi, pairs at least 30% of the entire previewed crocieristico traffic to Miami in the period in which the new terminal will be completed.
The new terminal cruises is not the single new investment that RCL will carry out in the port of Florida: in fact the crocieristico group has announced that it will enlarge of beyond 1.800 square metres own Innovation Lab situated in the headquarters of RCL in the port of Miami, center in which is planned the ships of the group.
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