How Will Olo Caye Get Cruise Passengers Ashore?

Olo Caye’s challenge will be that tourist ships cannot dock directly on mainland Belize. So, will they transfer visitors using tenders as is now in place? Developers says they accept that this is an area of concern, but they plan to solve it with the construction of a ferry system. They explained why a ferry system is completely different from the tender system and how it encourages visitors to get off the cruise ship.

 

Luis Ajamil, President, Bermello Ajamil

“A ferry, anybody could get on a ferry, you get on land, you get on another ship and you get off. The risk profile of that is you design a ferry station and people get on and off. It happens all the time across the world and there is no particular issues. The problem with tendering is bringing a tender ship to a boat that is out and anchored, bouncing around. It is a huge problem for them. Second is the capacity issue, in that you have the tenders then have to, a hundred or two hundred people capacity moving people back and forth. So that is the biggest problem. To prove the point, it is already in the public. We designed an island for MSC. Another island for MSC. It is under construction. It is right next to the other island. the piers are on the main one and we are ferrying people back and forth. And it is going to be a very high end island, under construction right now.”

 

The developers intend to continue engaging stakeholders in Belize.

 

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