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Gov. Martin O’Malley and the Board of Public Works approved the contract Wednesday for the MPA to purchase the land from Transoceanic Cable Ship Co.
The additional parking spaces are needed to handle the Port of Baltimore’s growing cruise business. Carnival Cruise Lines, the world’s largest cruise line, announced three weeks ago it will start the first year-round cruise service leaving from the Port of Baltimore to Caribbean destinations beginning in September 2009.
“The additional parking will be welcomed as we continue to demonstrate why our cruise terminal is so customer friendly and easy to access,” O’Malley said in a statement.
The MPA currently provides 524 on-site parking spaces. It’s expected that the new parking spaces will be available by summer 2009.
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5:55 AM MST on Sat., Jun. 7, 2008 re: "Baltimore port officials say second building is needed for new Carnival business"
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Richard R. Ryan (Correction) said:
Re: Cruise Terminal. "The...2009 budget, which does not include an expanded or new cruise terminal." Why not? If Carnival is prepared to being significant business to Baltimore in its sailings - How about a business sense approach. Amend the budget! Allow Private enterprise to develop all the required Cruse and pier side capital improvements. If left to the procurement, and budget processes of the Maryland Port Commission, when do you think it would be incorporated into the "Budget"? Let alone, ever built. Could this also assist in Light Rail development, e.g. to and from the Cruise Terminal to the Inner Harbor and related areas? At present transportation to and from the current Terminal is lacking. Think of the tourism economic impact, many passengers elect to spend the night prior to sailing. How would other existing Cruise cities and locales address this opportunity? Again, let’s consider a private industry approach to make this opportunity a reality.
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Richard R. Ryan said:
Re: Crusie Terminal. "The..2009 budget, which does not include an expanded or new cruise terminal." Why not? If Carnival is prepared to being significant business to Baltimore in its sailings - How about a business sense approach? Amend the budget! Allow Private enterprise to develop all the required Cruse and pierside capital improvements. If left to the procurement, and budget processes of the Maryland Port Commission, when do you think it would be incorporated into the "Budget"? Let alone, ever built? Could this also assist in Light Rail development, e.g. to and from the Cruise Terminal to the Inner Harbor and related areas? At present transportation to and from the current Terminal is lacking? Effective transfer for an influx of passangers traversing BWI to the Terminal? Let us revisit this to make it reality in very short term.
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