The Port of St. Maarten Cruise Facilities consists of the Dr. A.C. Wathey Pier, the John Craane Cruise Terminal, the Tender Jetty, Capt. Hodgeís Wharf,and Harbour Point Village. These incorporated facilities supply to the requirements the cruise sector.
The modern cruise facilities at the Port of St. Maarten sets St. Maarten in the 9th place among the leading twenty world cruise ports and destinations, according to G.P. Wild International, a management, marketing and economic consultancy practice based in the Great Britain.
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The Port of St. Maarten also ranks number nine of leading ports and destinations in the Caribbean Region.
The island as a cruise destination has arisen from 105,000 cruise passengers in 1980 to more than 1,4 million in 2006.
The Port of St. Maarten provides simultaneous accommodation for four cruise vessels along the 2100 ft cruise pier. The facilities include seaboard and boulevard promenades along with the John Craane Cruise Terminal providing bus, taxi and water taxi operations, car rentals, banking, tours, telecommunication services.
Water taxis leave the cruise facility and head straight into the duty-free shopping mecca of the Northeastern Caribbean, Philipsburg. Cruise passengers disembark at the Capt. Hodge Wharf from water taxis and tender boat shuttles.
Harbor Point Village opened in May 2003 and adds to the shopping center of Philipsburg (Front Street). The village boasts a shopping arcade consisting of 12 shops and 12 market-stalls.
Tender Jetty Facilities
The tender jetty facilities offers home porting, water taxis and water base tours. The new tender jetty is one of the largest in the Northeastern Caribbean.
The tender jetty is four mtrs (14 ft) wide by 120 mtrs (390 ft) long featuring a nine meter (25.2 ft) bridge section and four finger piers and a 24 meter (67.2 ft) covered section. A depth of six meters has been dredged to allow vessels with a draft of five meters to safely dock the berthing facility.
The finger piers can hold upto six vessels at the same time.
Link to the Sint Maarten Port website can be found here/