Ocho Rios Cruise Terminal repairs to cost US$20m

 

The Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ) says it will cost US$20 million to repair the damage to the Ocho Rios Cruise Terminal in St. Ann.

 

The facility has been closed since early February, when strong winds pushed a cruise ship, which was docked, into the pier.

 

"We have had to examine very carefully the conditions which led to the damage, and to do the engineering to rebuild that berth in a way that would make it capable of withstanding even greater shocks to it. We have done that work and we have the approvals to proceed with that, and we are quite advanced," said President and CEO of the PAJ Professor Gordon Shirley. 

 

He said work on the pier should be done by June next year. 

 

"In the interim, we have rescheduled all the vessels that were scheduled there, to the Reynolds Pier in Ocho Rios, so that we can keep many of them in Ocho Rios, and those that couldn't, we have put them in Falmouth and Montego Bay," he told Radio Jamaica News at the Port Authority's open day on Tuesday.