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Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings, Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises brands, revealed their plans for a new Norwegian Cruise Line terminal at PortMiami. The project will begin in May 2018, and is scheduled for completion by the fall of 2019.

The child fell from an interior atrium onto the lower deck of a Carnival cruise ship, during passengers' disembarkation at Miami port, on morning hours of Saturday. The girl was transferred to the ship's medical center to receive emergency care and then, she was taken to a nearby hospital, where she succumbed to her injuries,

Royal Caribbean held a ceremony on March 8 for their new state-of-the-art terminal at PortMiami announcing that they are building the largest cruise ship in the world, Symphony of the Seas, and that the ship’s home port will be Miami.

An agreement between two marine terminal companies located at the Port of Miami enters into force, permitting those parties to seek cooperation and commonality in both business and operating matters the FMC announced.

Royal Caribbean Cruises announced an agreement with Miami-Dade County to construct and operate a dramatic new cruise terminal at PortMiami, on land leased from the County. The new terminal will be a striking addition to PortMiami, and will serve as homeport to Royal Caribbean International ships, including a 5,400-passenger Oasis-class ship.

PortMiami is now ready for the big ship eraas more than $1 billion of capital infrastructure projects are now complete and have transformed PortMiami to a major U.S. global gateway.

PortMiami Moves Toward More Efficient Trade With Peru

Miami prepares to dredge its port to accommodate supersize freighters As Miami prepares to dredge its port to accommodate supersize freighters, environmentalists are making a last-ditch effort to protect threatened coral reefs and acres of sea grass that they say would be destroyed by the expansion. The number of successful piracy attacks on ships off the coast of Somalia and the Gulf of Aden has decreased this year leading to fears that there will be an escalation in violence against seafarers.

By 2020 the Port of Miami should be double and more convenient for large ships calls Work on the $1 billion tunnel connecting Dodge Island to regional highways is underway. This summer, work is to begin on a rail line reconnecting the Port of Miami to the Hialeah Rail Yard and dredging in one of its channels is to begin in coming months, Dredging Today reports.Port Director Bill Johnson, speaking at the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerces annual goals conference, said the project implementation would help bringing major logistics centers to South Florida, making Miami port convenient for large ships calls.The port and partner Florida East Coast Railway are to soon begin marketing jointly to make the case for Miami to the worlds largest shippers.The regions business community, Mr. Johnson said, needs to focus on the box, or the individual cargo container.The objective is to double the amount of cargo activity, he said. The port in 2010 saw about 800,000 20-foot equivalent units, an industry measurement.By 2020, in literally less than nine years, the Port of Miami should be double that, he said.Source: Port News