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Artists’ Rendition Of Sports Complex
Photo By Erasmus Williams

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
May 01, 2012 (CUOPM)

Norwegian Cruise Line revealed plans for a three-deck sports complex on the Norwegian Breakaway, which has St. Kitts – Nevis on its itinerary for the 2012/2013 cruise ship season.

The Norwegian Breakaway which is under construction at the Meyer Werft yard in Germany is slated to enter service in the spring 2013.

Details about the complex were unveiled during CLIA’s Cruise3sixty conference on April 27.

The ship’s sports area will have five water slides (including twin “Free Fall” slides), a zipline, a basketball court, a rock climbing wall, a ropes course and mini-golf.

The 4,000-passenger ship, which will be deployed year-round in New York, also will feature a Nickelodeon-themed water park.

“As a sports enthusiast, I am so excited about the extraordinary recreation and the over-the-top ways to play on this incredible new ship,” said Norwegian Cruise Line CEO Kevin Sheehan.

The Norwegian Getaway, sister ship to the Breakaway, will enter service in spring 2014 and be based year-round in Miami.

Norwegian Breakaway, which debuts in May 2013, will operate a series of 25 seven-night cruises to the Caribbean region starting on Oct. 13, 2013.

The ship also will sail two 12-night Southern Caribbean itineraries out of New York on Jan. 5 and 19, 2014, along with two short “Weekend Escape” cruises on Jan. 17 and 31, 2014.

The 12-night Southern Caribbean cruises include stops in San Juan, Puerto Rico; St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands; Philipsburg, St. Maarten; Castries, St. Lucia; Bridgetown, Barbados; and Basseterre, St. Kitts.

The 2,224-Norwegian Dawn is making 16 calls to Port Zante, for the 2011/2012 cruise ship season. The 90,000 ton Jewel of the Seas, which has a passenger capacity of 2,500, made a one-time call to St. Kitts in November 2011.

The 3,000 passenger capacity Norwegian Star and the 2,250-passenger capacity Norwegian Spirit also made one-time calls to St. Kitts during the 2010/2011 season, while the Norwegian Dawn made 14 calls.

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Oil Tanker Fouling The Water Of St. Kitts

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
February 12, 2012 (CUOPM)

St. Kitts and Nevis has already developed a draft action plan to commence consultation with relevant stake holders in support of establishing for the first time, a national maritime policy to guide the sustainable development of the maritime sector in the twin-island federation.

Mr. McClean Hobson, the Director of Maritime Affairs in the Department of Maritime Affairs within the Ministry of International Transport said he was among local ttechnocrats from several agencies in St.Kitts and Nevis, who joined their counterparts from across the OECS in what was considered a very productive two-day workshop on Ocean governance.

He said the Physical Planning and the Environment and Legal Departments of both the Federal Government and the Nevis Island Administration attended the workshop at the Garden Bay Hotel in St. Lucia over the period February 8 – 9, 2012.

The is workshop which came on the heels of the 54th meeting of the OECS Authority, was jointly sponsored by OECS Secretariat and The Commonwealth  and seek to follow up on the Heads decision for an OECS-wide approach to the development of a regional integrated ocean governance framework.

The facilitators for the workshop were drawn from Florida State University, and the Commonwealth and the OECS Secretariat and guided the workshop on issues pertaining to effective ocean governance frame work, economic benefits of the OECS waters, maritime boundary delimitation, development of hydrography, sustainable development of the ocean, maritime policy frame work at the national and regional level.

“While the ocean is a source of significant benefits, my gut feeling tells me we are still taking it for granted. Instead of exploiting the resources it is being left for all to do what they want. It is about time the whole issue of ocean governance be sorted, hence, I am pleased with the decisions on this matter coming out of the 54th Meeting of the Authority,” opined Mr. Hobson.

He stated that St. Kitts and Nevis is wasting no time on this matter.

“In fact, I will venture to say that we are ahead of the rest of the OECS where this is concerned. We have a very vibrant Maritime Boundary Delimitation Negotiating Team in place, fully trained and making preparation to enter the first round of negotiations with the Netherlands in the case of St. Eustatius sometime soon,” said Mr. Hobson, who commended the efforts of the Right Honorable Dr. Denzil L. Douglas and the rest of the St. Kitts and Nevis Cabinet  “for their foresight on ocean governance and for  creating the environment for the local technocrats to proceed with the work in this area, even without the efforts of the OECS Secretariat.

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Cruise Tourists Relaxing At Port Zante
Photo By Erasmus Williams

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
November 27, 2011 (CUOPM

Visits by the three cruise ships on Friday and Saturday brought the numbers of cruise passengers to 26,000 for that week and nearly 63,000 for the month of November to date.

According to figures from the Marine Department of the St. Christopher Air and Sea Ports Authority (SCASPA), the 3,050-passenger capacity Carnival Victory arrived with a total of 3,401 passengers and the 3,114-passenger capacity Adventure of the Seas had a total of 3,654 passengers on board a total of 7,035 passengers on Friday.

On Saturday, the 540-passenger capacity Silver Spirit berth at Port Zante with 540 passengers.

The visit by the 11 cruise ships brought some 26,028 passengers for last week and a total of 60,960 sun and fun-seeking cruisers for the month of November to date.

Ten ships are scheduled to visit St. Kitts this week with an estimated 23,000 passengers. They are the 450-passenger Seabourne Quest and the 3,840-passenger Explorer of the Seas on Sunday, the 3,100-passenger Ventura on Monday; the 3,114-passenger Adventure of the Seas on Tuesday; the 255-passenger Royal Clipper and the 3,840-passenger Navigator of the Seas on Wednesday; the 2,224 passenger Norwegian Dawn and the 180-passenger Star Clipper on Thursday; the 3,050-passenger Carnival Victory on Friday and the 3,597-passenger Azura on Saturday.

Over 625,000 cruise passengers are expected to visit during the 2011/2012 cruise ship season.

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