hey everybody its Bruce here with traveling with Bruce today's video is
all about the busiest cruise ports in the United States in the 50s and the 60s
the transatlantic ocean liner was the king of the Seas and New York City was
number one for traffic but that started to change when the jet replaced the
cruise ship to go across the Atlantic Miami started to come on strong with
cruise ships going to the Caribbean and back today Miami as the number one
cruise port in America with over five million passengers a year going through
the port Miami is probably going to reach seven to seven and a half million
passengers over the next couple of years because of all the new terminals being
built there was a time that terminal buildings in these ports were like a
giant warehouses very clammy very drafty not anymore now cruise lines are
building beautiful architectural e stunning structures to handle the
passengers for their cruises so Miami number one number two port in the USA is
Port Canaveral near Orlando Florida and that beautiful International Airport and
of course Disneyland Universal Studios Port Canaveral is growing leaps and
bounds they have a lot of room to continue to expand Disney is adding
ships Royal Caribbean is adding ships the ships are getting larger and Port
Canaveral can handle the increase in traffic they are approaching a four and
a half to five million passengers and they're gonna keep right on growing from
there the number three port is the port everglades or near port fort lauderdale
this is a shot here of the port seven ships at a time are easily in this sport
you see the airport in the bottom left-hand corner there here's a shot of
the port from space lots of port dock facilities here and of course the
infrastructure to bring the people in and all the goods you need for a
week-long cruise port everglades is one of the busiest in the world New York
City of course is still a place to come to obviously a New York is known
the number one say a passenger count port in the world or or in North America
but it's still significant a lot of ships come here to either do day visits
or to start and finish their cruises especially obviously in the summer and
in the fall those incredible New England cruises where you see the spectacular
fall of colors from the trees absolutely stunning and of course a lot of people
it's a highlight to take a cruise to come into New York to see the Statue of
Liberty see the skyscrapers of Manhattan see a few plays if you can sometimes so
cruises will come in here spend a couple of nights and the passengers can take in
the town for a day or two before they leave again
of course it's inconvenient in a way because you know it's crowded it's busy
but it's New York and so all is forgiven and New York is a very busy place
it's about a million passengers a year or so nowadays the other report that's
coming on another place here is Galveston Galveston just outside of
Houston Texas you have five and a half million people in Houston you're near
New Orleans you're not too far from Dallas folks can drive here lots of
places to park your car and take a cruise to the Caribbean and Mexico from
Galveston the drawback flooding the floods that have been coming in lately
have really caused havoc for passengers the folks in Galveston are gonna
probably have to really work on this to try to find ways to mitigate it but it's
the one drawback for Galveston is the low-lying land what are you gonna do
another area that's picking up popularity is Tampa in Florida beautiful
city beautiful area here convenient for flying in and out of or driving to for
Floridians Tampa is a very popular place and growing a million passengers a year
or using Tampa for their cruises to the Caribbean and to Mexico Seattle the
Alaska cruise business is booming and the city will of Seattle has gone from
hole sex six seven hundred thousand passengers a year now there are over a
million they're likely heading for one and a half million passengers a year
even trips to Asia are now starting and ending in
Seattle especially spring summer and fall here's the bliss with the roller
coast of the go-kart track on the back really popular ship out of Seattle every
and every summer going forward here's Los Angeles pork that's handling
about five six hundred thousand passengers a year it's a port that has
got all the potential in the world to do more business but the problem is cruise
lines out of LA and even out of Long Beach here they only go to Mexico and
Hawaii they don't really go much further than that it's too far to get to Alaska
so Los Angeles doesn't do the millions of passengers a year that other ports do
but those who are top ports so we're talking Miami Port Canaveral Port
Everglades Galveston New York Tampa Seattle Los Angeles Long Beach this is
where Americans come and go for cruising and of course international parent
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