it's Bruce here with traveling with Bruce I have a video today all about the
Port of Miami the good the bad the past and the future thanks for subscribing to
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and come and join us December 2020 this is what the Miami port or the Port of
Miami looks like today very big and fully developed but here is what it
looked like a long time ago can you see the sail ships sitting there on the one
pier I mean have things changed in the decades or what Miami did a lot of work
over the years as of course expanded in population and has become a major port
city not only for container ships but also for cruise ships you can see these
early early photos where they were dredging the water and building the
peer-to-peer built a big dock facility here and over the years we've had cruise
ships in the 50s the 60s and the 70s go through here and today it's completely
different the future is bright for the Port of Miami it's the world's busiest
port for cruise ship passengers and with Norwegian building that phenomenal
facility like this one I think this one is running at least 263 million dollars
with a major parking garage we have our friends at Royal Caribbean they've
completed their 260 plus million-dollar facility we are talking the latest
technology inside of these buildings facial-recognition take the technology
to get you on and off the ship and our real hurry the cruise lines are
investing hundreds of millions Miami Dade County is investing billions at
least one and a half billion dollars into this with these facilities MSC
here's building their facility at least three hundred million dollars the reason
is simple every year the poor authority and the area around Miami has
a benefit over six billion dollars from the cruise ship business here's well
here's a revamped carnival port terminal building by the way with over six
billion dollars in payoffs putting one-and-a-half billion in makes a lot of
sense these new terminal facilities will be used for decades to come and the
cruise lines are telling the city of Miami we're here for the long haul
here's virgin virgin voyages terminal when it's finished 180 million by the
way for that one even brand new headquarters like this 300 million
dollar for brand new office complex for Royal Caribbean the area where
unfortunately the Port of Miami really blew it is that even with all of this
development being done total of 1.5 billion dollars in building out what
they didn't do and it's shocking is that back in Oh 2011 there was a study done
saying that they should install short a ship power to combat this Miami is not
immune from air pollution and the number of cruise ships using the port of Miami
will increase dramatically over the next number of years and the city fathers had
no idea when they originally had this dredged out that in today's world they
would have as much traffic as they do and they do not have mandatory Shore to
ship power facilities which means that as the cruise ships are sitting here
unloading and loading up their passengers they're running their engines
and they're just spewing their their smoke into the air and at times there
are seven eight nine ships at a time just standing here for eight ten hours
just spewing this up into the air it's sad to see because Miami has got such
phenomenal potential going forward six point eight million passengers now a
year they're going to reach seven or eight million passengers a year and
unfortunately we're looking at photos like this that are doctored to hide the
smoke and emissions coming out of the Port of Miami to give you impression
that it's crystal clear skies and everything is perfect it isn't and
it really is a shame that Miami didn't join other international cities like
Homburg Shanghai Halifax Montreal Vancouver or even other ports in the USA
like Juneau Seattle Brooklyn San Francisco Long Beach San Diego and LA
where they've made it mandatory to have short to ship power available for cruise
ships Miami didn't do it Fort Lauderdale didn't do it and Port
Canaveral isn't doing it either and it's a crying shame because these are three
of the world's busiest cruise ports and it's an opportunity lost in the case of
Miami they're talking about the possibility of doing this by 2035 and
that's really unacceptable another 16 years before they really institute this
it's way too long it's way past due and it's just my humble opinion I think they
should get on it sooner rather than later while they're building out these
facilities now's the perfect opportunity to put this in anyway let me know your
thoughts below should they do this or not short a ship power is it a good idea
if you enjoy Miami like I do we'll be using it going forward but I
sure would love to see Miami be at the forefront of this thanks for joining me
everybody it's Bruce here with travelling a Bruce talk to you next time
bye for now