Canada New England Cruise Symposium, port congestion, andrew dixon

1. Panel Session:
Port Congestion:
Limited Berths, Availability or Both??
Canada New England Cruise Symposium
June 9, 2010

2. Saint John – Cruise History
Number of Passengers

3. Evolution of the Marco Polo Cruise Terminal
2003: Before Improvements

4. Evolution of the Marco Polo Cruise Terminal
2009: $19 million Improvements Completed

5. Evolution of Long Wharf Cruise Terminal
2006: Before Improvements

6. Evolution of Long Wharf Cruise Terminal
2008: $1 million Improvements Completed “to-date”

7. What the future may look like..
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8. What the Future May Look Like..
Cruise Ships have steadily
increased in length over the
past 20 years…
and the trend continues.
Opportunity…. But with a challenge.

9. What the Future May Look Like..
With our present cruise berth capacity, on
any given day:
Due to ever increasing vessel sizes, we are
rapidly becoming a “two-ship cruise port”.
We can only accommodate one vessel in
excess of 300m overall length.

10. Carnival Dream
Introduced in 2009
306 Meters Long
130,000 GRT
3652 Passengers

11. Norwegian Epic
Will be Introduced in 2010
329 Meters Long
153,000 GRT
4200 Passengers

12. RCCL - Oasis Class
Introduced in 2009
360 Meters Long
220,000 GRT
5400 Passengers

13. Current Pugsley & Lower Cove Berth Capacity
Pugsley A/B – 388 m
Pugsley C – 235 m
Effectively Obsolete
Lower Cove – 224 m

14. Proposed Pugsley Berth Extension
New Berth Length – 645 m New Wharf Area
320 – 340 metres

15. Proposed Long Wharf Extension
Approx. 320 metres
New Berth Length – 645 m New Wharf Area

16. The Early 90’s
Vessels were
often docked at
cargo facilities.

17. Don’t want a comment like this:
“We did a shore excursion and walked
around Saint John - all very pleasant but
unfortunately we docked at a cargo
facility and were quite far from the city
center. This wasn’t particularly inviting or
convenient compared to the other ships
that were at modern cruise piers. Not
sure why we weren’t.”

18. Thank-You!

19. Panelists
Les Parsons – Executive Director Historic
Charlottetown Seaport
John Heylen – Senior Manager Fleet Operations
Carnival UK
Crystal Morgan – Director Market Planning, Princess
Cruises