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Royal Caribbean Cruises will realize a new terminal cruises in the port of Galveston
It will become operating in autumn 2021
December 13, 2019
The group Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL) has signed an agreement with the port of Galveston in order to realize a new terminal cruises in the American harbour port of call with an investment of 100 million dollars. The understanding previews that, through a public-private partnership, the crocieristico group American constructs the terminal and therefore it takes in rent from the port for an initial period 20-year-old to it with four options of extension 10-year-old of the period of lease.
The terminal will be realized on an area of about four hectares to Pier 10, in the part oriental of the port, on which a building of two plans with a surface of base of about 158 thousand square metres will rise. According to the forecasts, the work will be started the next April and the terminal will enter in exercise in the autumn of 2021.
"The new terminal - it has emphasized the president and managing director of Royal Caribbean International, Michael Bayley, in occasion of the signature of the agreement - will allow us to increase of 50% the hosts who we carry in this region generating an economic impact pairs to 100 million dollars in the first year of activity".
The ships of the crocieristico group land to Galveston from 2002 and currently they are the two - the Enchantment of the Seas and the Rhapsody of the Seas - ships of RCL that call in the texan port. Royal Caribbean Cruises has anticipated that as soon as the new terminal will enter in activity will receive the Allure of the Seas, that it is one of the larger cruise ships of the world.
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