Plans are under consideration for a massive port redevelopment in Jamaica that could create one of the most active shipping ports in the Caribbean.
"Dubbed 'A Waterfront Experience of Historic Proportion', Falmouth Port is to return to its heyday, when sugar was king and its harbour was one of the most bustling shipping ports in the Caribbean, with a massive multibillion-dollar port and tourism development unprecedented anywhere in the Caribbean set to begin."
"The port is to be developed to berth two mega liners simultaneously, measuring 360 metres each with a maximum draught of 93 metres below air and a maximum draught of 65 metres above waterline, along with a 47-metre beam (55.9m at bridge). The liners can carry a maximum of 2,100 people."
"If the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) passes the plans for the redevelopment later this month, work could begin on Finger Pier as early as November. If works begins that quickly, plans are for the project to be complete as early as August 9, 2009."
FULL STORY: 'A waterfront experience of historic proportion' - Billion-dollar redevelopment project for Falmouth
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