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Global Holding Ports adjudicates the management of the crocieristico traffic in the port of Nassau
Consortium with the new bottom retail bahamense BIF and with the new beneficent agency bahamense Yes Foundation
February 25, 2019
Nassau Cruise Port (NCP), a consortium that soon will come formally constituted from Global Holding Ports (GPH), that it is controlled by the Turkish group Global Investment Holdings, by the Bahamian Investment Fund (BIF) and by the Yes Foundation, has adjudicated the contest indetta from the government of Bahamas for the management of the crocieristiche activities to the Prince George Wharf of the port of Nassau, task that will be regulated by a contract of concession of the duration 25-year-old.
The contractual agreement will presee also a potenziamento of harbour infrastructures, with the consortium that will be engaged to invest in order to carry from six to eight the number of the docks of the harbour port of call dedicated to the crocieristico traffic. Besides the construction of the new landings place, the understanding will include the realization of a new building that will act as is from terminals that give structure destined to accommodate events and shows.
The consortium will be participated to 49% from GPH, 49% from the new bottom retail bahamense BIF and to 2% from the new beneficent agency bahamense young Yes Foundation in support of, sport and education. For Global Holding Ports, Nassau will be the third party managed crocieristico port in the Caribbean area: in recent months, in fact, the Turkish terminalista society has adjudicated also the management of the crocieristiche activities of the Cuban port de the Havana and of the crocieristico traffic to Antigua(on May 22, 2018 and 1° February 2019).
According to the forecasts, the contract of concession with NCP will come undersigned in the second half of the year of this year. The managing director of GPH, Emre Sayin, has emphasized that Nassau will become the main port for volume of traffic in the pocketbook of the company and will allow to increase of 50% the traffic of the passengers enlivened annually.
Nassau is one of the main world-wide crocieristici ports with a traffic that in 2017 has been of beyond 3,5 million passengers.
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