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Pier 66 is the official designation for the Port of Seattle's Bell Street Pier and Bell Harbor complex, which replaced historic Piers 64, 65, and 66 in the mid-1990s. Facilities at the Bell Street facility include a marina, a cruise ship terminal, a conference center, the Odyssey Maritime Discovery Center, restaurants, and marine services.
The Smith Cove Cruise Terminal opened at Pier 91 in 2009, providing Holland America Line and Princess Cruises with a more permanent Seattle facility; Terminal 30 reverted to use as a container terminal as a part of an expanded Terminal 28. [64] In the wake of the September 11 attacks, security became a major priority. Besides the well-known ...
In 1991, Princess Cruises began developing their third ever Caribbean private resort named Princess Cays located on the southern tip of the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas. [10] The development was reported to cost $1.2 million and was unveiled in 1992, becoming an exclusive port of call for the cruise line's Western Caribbean itineraries. [10]
Annual cruise passengers Rank Port 2022 / 2023 Country 1 Port of Miami: 7,299,294 [1] United States 2 Port Canaveral: 6,924,865 [1] United States 3 Port of Cozumel: 4,098,491 (2017) [2]
The Old Port of Quebec and its marina Grain Elevator on the Louise Bassin. Louise Bassin, and Old Quebec. The Port of Quebec (French: Port de Québec) is an inland port located in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. It is the oldest port in Canada, and the second largest in Quebec after the Port of Montreal.
[7] [8] On 17 August 1942, while en route in a convoy from Port Said, Egypt, to Cyprus with 125 crewmen and 998 British soldiers on board, Princess Marguerite was hit by two torpedoes fired by the German submarine U-83, sinking the vessel with a loss of between 50 and 60 soldiers and crewmembers. [9]
English: East Waterway Terminal, Seattle, Washington, 1910. Harbor Island at left, with almost no construction yet. The Smith Tower, visible in the distance at right, had opened the year before. Most of this is now (2015) container port, also a Coast Guard facility.
In 1951, Washington State bought out PSNC and took over the ferry system. The state paid $500,000 for the ferry terminal at Colman Dock. [6] Work on the present terminal began a decade later; there have been several reconfigurations and modernizations since. [3] The very month that the state ferry terminal opened, it was the subject of another ...