2016 Gold Coast Cruise Ship Terminal Proposal

Gold Coast cruise ship terminal.

2016 gold coast cruise ship terminal proposal. Gold Coast cruise ship terminal plan. A jetty structure extending approximately 950 metres offshore from Philip Park. Mayor Tom Tate says why we need one Alice Gorman says why we dont.

The proposed cruise ship terminal of Gold Coast would cost between 170 and 450 million as per Mayor Tom Tate. MAYOR Tom Tates ambitious cruise-ship terminal will cost 70 million and could need funding from all three levels of government. 84 858 548 460 List of Tables Table 1 Overview of the Citys environmental record 4 Table 2 Commonwealth legislation relevant to the proposal 5.

For the proposed cruise ship terminal to proceed extensive dredging will be required of the seaway and even widening of the seaway to allow 300m cruise ships to enter the broadwater. An artists impressions of a Gold Coast cruise ship terminal proposal. The terminal would allow ships to berth.

The long-awaited Plan B proposal would be built by 2020 as an offshore jetty half a nautical mile off The Spit from Philip Park adjacent to Sea World. The State Opposition says Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has all but killed off plans for a cruise ship terminal on the Gold Coast after the Premier told ABC radio another proposed cruise. The City of Gold Coast has previously released figures showing a cruise ship terminal could contribute between 26 billion and 31 billion for the city over 30 years and create 3500 jobs.

THE cruise ship terminal proposal is one of the most divisive issues our citys faced. The business case prepared by Price Waterhouse Coopers estimated that the proposed terminal could employ up to 3600 people and inject 28 billion into the Gold Coast. During the March 2016 council elections Cr Tate promoted building a 70 million cruise ship terminal on the ocean side of the Southport Spit south of Sea World.

Cruise ships using the Gold Coasts proposed 450 million oceanside terminal could be pushed to shore by strong winds and waves according to a section of an official report which has been withheld from the public. The Gold Coast Bulletin revealed that the Gold Coast City Council had quietly shelved the proposal after receiving a report that a terminal would not be viable. The Qld Government sank a proposal for a cruise terminal development on Wavebreak Island earlier this.