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SAINT JOHN, N.B. While Canada’s cruise ship ban is ending months ahead of schedule, large passenger vessels aren’t expected to enter Maritime harbours until 2022. “We’ve got a schedule next year, right now, of 70 cruise ships with 188,000 passengers,” says Andrew Dixon, vice president of trade and business development at the Port of Saint John. Dixon says the port’s goal is to keep that schedule in tact. “We’ll obviously be going out to the cruise lines now looking to firm those reservations up,” he says. “The other wild card is how full the ships will be. We wouldn’t necessarily expect them to be at the high 90 percentile level.”
The Marco Polo will make its first stop on the Eastern Seaboard next week. It will be the largest container ship that we’ve ever seen here in Halifax, said Lane Farguson, a spokesperson for the Port of Halifax. This is a massive vessel. Not only is this a big accomplishment for Halifax, the Marco Polo will be the largest vessel to enter any port on the Atlantic coast of North America. There’s only a handful of ports that have the deep water capability and the necessary infrastructure to be able to take those vessels and turn them around efficiently, Farguson said. Halifax is one of them.
How an infilled area of the Bedford Basin could advance the Africville story
A large piece of land that juts into the Bedford Basin and curves around Africville Park could one day be a marina or outdoor community space after consultation with community members, says the head of the Africville Heritage Trust.
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Africville Heritage Trust in talks to take ownership of land across from where the community once stood
Posted: Apr 09, 2021 7:00 PM AT | Last Updated: April 9
The Halifax Port Authority has been infilling part of the Bedford Basin since 2012 but a proposed land swap could see it turned over to the Africville Heritage Trust.(Halifax Port Authority)