Canada New England Cruise Symposium Port Congestion Andrew Dixon

Canada New England Cruise Symposium June 9, 2010

Panel Session:

Port Congestion: Limited Berths, Availability or Both??

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Saint John – Cruise History

Evolution of the Marco Polo Cruise Terminal

2003: Before Improvements

Evolution of the Marco Polo Cruise Terminal

2009: $19 million Improvements Completed

Evolution of Long Wharf Cruise Terminal

2006: Before Improvements

Evolution of Long Wharf Cruise Terminal

2008: $1 million Improvements Completed “to-date”

What the future may look like..

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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.

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.

Carnival Dream

Introduced in 2009306 Meters Long130,000 GRT3652 Passengers

Norwegian Epic

Will be Introduced in 2010

329 Meters Long

153,000 GRT

4200 Passengers

Introduced in 2009

360 Meters Long

220,000 GRT

5400 Passengers

RCCL - Oasis Class

Pugsley A/B – 388 m

Pugsley C – 235 m

Lower Cove – 224 mEffectively Obsolete

Current Pugsley & Lower Cove Berth Capacity

Proposed Pugsley Berth Extension

New Berth Length – 645 m New Wharf Area320 – 340 metres

Proposed Long Wharf Extension

New Berth Length – 645 m New Wharf Area

Approx. 320 metres

The Early 90’s

Vessels were often docked at cargo facilities.

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.”

Thank-You!

Panelists

Les Parsons – Executive Director Historic Charlottetown Seaport

John Heylen – Senior Manager Fleet Operations Carnival UK

Crystal Morgan – Director Market Planning, Princess Cruises