Cruise Ports Cruise From Departure Ports

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• Arrivals
• ACL-American Cruise Lines opens 2023 season with American Star ship from Florida
• HAL-Holland America opens bookings for 2025-2026 Panama Canal and Hawaii cruises
• Azamara expands Fall 2024 cruises to Canada and New England USA
• Carnival Sunshine cruise ship experiences dangerous storm while sailing back to Charleston SC

The project also included dredging (deepening) the navigation channel. All these ports/cruise terminals are part of the "Port of New York and New Jersey" - a port district in the New York Metro (total population 20,1+ million). For Terminal 25's new design was contracted the company "Bermello Ajamil and Partners".

Arrivals

It encompasses an area with a radius ~25 mi (40 km) and includes all navigable waterways in NY–NJ Harbor Estuary. The covered coastline is around 650 mi (1050 km) along both states. By annual cargo capacity, the seaport is ranked USA's 3rd largest - after South Louisiana (Mississippi River) and Houston (Texas). In early-December 2018, Port Everglades and Empresa Nacional Portuaria de Honduras (Honduras Port Authority) signed an MOU as part of the Sister Seaports Program.

ACL-American Cruise Lines opens 2023 season with American Star ship from Florida

In addition to the deepening project, Port Charleston started a major program for upgrading its terminal infrastructure and equipment. The Manhattan passenger terminal is on Hudson River (on Manhattan Island's shoreline), located is between West 44 and West 52 streets. Both Newark International Airport and LaGuardia Airport are located approx 15 mi (24 km) away, while JFK International Airport is approx 20 mi (32 km) away.

HAL-Holland America opens bookings for 2025-2026 Panama Canal and Hawaii cruises

This NYC cruise terminal has 3 wharves – Pier 88 (2 berths), Pier 90 (2 berths), and Pier 92 (1 overflow berth). They can accommodate up to 5 cruise liners simultaneously and each has a fully-functioning passenger terminal building. Manhattan terminal serves NCL Norwegian, Carnival Cruise Line and Holland America. In August 2016, the port signed with Carnival Corporation an extension to their agreement to the year 2030. The renovation and extension allow the handling of larger-sized (including Carnival's newest) vessels.

In June 2017, the port invested USD 38,4 million for purchasing 3x container-handling gantry cranes (serving the world's largest Super Post-Panamax container carriers/boxships) priced USD 13,8 million each. This class of cargo vessels can carry up to 10,500 TEU-containers each. Port Everglades' capacity improvements project was budgeted USD 437,5 million, and included construction of new berths (for larger cargo vessels) and installing a new rail infrastructure for new gantry cranes.

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Beyond the infrastructure cost, the project was delayed by haggling over the price of electrical power – in an era where cheap fuel prices made shipboard generation more economical. The power costs are subsidized in part by the EDC and the New York Power Authority, with terminal user Carnival Corp picking up the rest. As part of an agreement, Carnival Corporation pays USD 12 cents per kilowatt-hour for shorepower. As of September 2016, NYCEDC has responsibility for the system's operations and maintenance. A US$650,000 federal grant was given to the city for the building of a new ferry terminal. The facility is on the southern part of the Military Ocean Terminal, on an artificial peninsula east of NJ Route 440.

In August 2018, NYC Ferry launched a link between Soundview (South Bronx) and Manhattan. The landing site in Bronx is at Clason Point Park (Sound View Ave's end). The nearest subway station (Morrison Ave-Sound View) is 2 mi (3 km) away.

Fort Lauderdale (Port Everglades, Florida)

The new "Port Everglades Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System" provides online data accessible to private boaters and commercial users. In FY2020 (fiscal year), for the Charleston Harbor Deepening Project were allocated USD 138 million. Dredging works (conducted by USACE) were completed in 2021 and resulted in max draft/water depth of 52 ft (16 m).

Construction works are scheduled to start in 2024-Q2 and be completed in 2027-Q4. Following President Trump's executive order on immigration, in the end of January 2017 Port Everglades officials reported cruise tourists being detained by US Customs and Border Protection. All detainees had to provide background info about them, their families and also their past life in their native countries. The new President's order was signed on Jan 27, and included a 90-day ban on travel to the USA by citizens of Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen. In January 2017, the city agreed to limit the per-year number of cruise vessels scheduled to dock in Port Charleston.

In Manhattan, ferries stop at 90th St (Upper East Side), East 34th Str (Midtown), Pier 11 (Wall Str). Currently, NYC's Manhattan Cruise Terminal serves CCL-Carnival, NCLH (NCL-Norwegian, Oceania, RSSC-Regent Seven Seas), TUI,  Virgin Voyages and other major companies.

The northern part of Port Everglades is called Northport (with terminals 2 and 4). The cruise port's central area is called Midport (terminals 18, 19, 21, 25, 26, 29). In 2016, the cruise port completed pilot testing of APC kiosks (abbrev "Automated Passport Control") in 2 terminals. This is yet another CBP initiative to fasten the passenger inspection process. Since 2011, the cruiseferry company BALEARIA Caribbean provides daily crossings from Fort Lauderdale to Freeport (Grand Bahama Island). In August 2019, the company started a fast-ferry service from Fort Lauderdale to Bimini Island Bahamas (crossing time ~2 hours).

In 2016, Port Everglades handled almost 3,9 million passengers served by 9 different cruise lines with a total of 39 different vessels. 2022 became the Port's record year by annual TEU container volumes - nearly 2,8 million , or 1,5% increase over 2021. The Port also served 261,636 cruise tourists and moved 199,343 vehicles (at Columbus Street Terminal). Both Inland Ports (Greer and Dillon) reported total 167,147 rail moves.

RCG (which also owns Celebrity Cruises) homeported Celebrity Edge here, starting turnaround operations in 2018 (on December 1st). The new T25 terminal (in Hollywood FL) was officially inaugurated with the ship's arrival (on November 20th). The grand ceremony was attended by Richard Fain (RCG's President and CEO) and Lisa Lutoff-Perlo (Celebrity's President and CEO), plus key cruise brand executives and local officials. As container shipping (cargo) port, in 2013 Port Everglades was ranked Florida's 1st and USA's 10th busiest, handling over 1 million TEUs. Port Everglades is one of the USA's main cruise departure (turnaround) ports for Caribbean roundtrip itineraries.