The wait for an official port for cruise ships in South Philadelphia is finally over as municipal officials cut the ribbon at South Philly’s PhilaPort on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The move comes about four months after Norwegian Cruise Line returned to Philadelphia to begin offering service from the City of Brotherly Love to Bermuda and points beyond.<\/p>\n
Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker joined elected officials to cut the ribbon on the new PhilaPort cruise terminal, built on a 16-acre site adjacent to the Philadelphia International Airport along Atlantic Avenue, at 11 a.m. on Thursday.<\/p>\n
PhilaPort was intended to open over the spring, and since April, Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Jewel has been operating from a temporary facility after, officials said, extreme weather conditions impacted construction and delayed the opening of the new port.<\/p>\n
Early Thursday, the Norwegian Jewel, which has the capacity to accommodate 2,300 guests and offers voyages to the island of Bermuda, pulled in to the new terminal.<\/p>\n
Officials said the new port is expected to create 2,185 new direct and indirect jobs and generate an additional $300 million in economic output for the Commonwealth.<\/p>\n
Philadelphia’s cruise port opens additional cruising options for Delaware residents looking to avoid flying to a port, who can also use Cruise Maryland’s port in Baltimore to ride the Carnival Pride and Royal Caribbean Vision of the Seas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The wait for an official port for cruise ships in South Philadelphia is finally over as municipal officials…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[115535,11487,29109,75620,69,71,70,75626,29010,11485,115536,10625,645,115538,11484,115537],"class_list":["post-275130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-cruise-lines","tag-maritime-transport","tag-norwegian-cruise-line","tag-norwegian-jewel","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-port","tag-port-of-philadelphia","tag-shipping","tag-shipping-companies","tag-ships","tag-south-philadelphia","tag-tourism-companies","tag-water-transport","tag-water-transport-companies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}