Antigua and Barbuda is being positioned as a key gateway for cruise travel into the Southern Caribbean following the opening of a new cruise terminal in St John’s.
The outlook was outlined by Global Ports Holding’s Eastern Caribbean regional director, Lancelot Arnold, at Saturday’s official opening of the Antigua Cruise Port terminal on Lower Newgate Street.
The new facility is designed to support homeporting, allowing cruise passengers to begin and end their journeys in Antigua and Barbuda. Mr Arnold said this capability strengthens the country’s cruise infrastructure and elevates its regional role.
He noted that the expansion of turnaround operations means the country is no longer seen only as a port of call, but increasingly as a logistical hub serving itineraries to destinations further south, including St Lucia and other Southern Caribbean islands.
Mr Arnold said the development promotes regional cooperation and demonstrates how modern port infrastructure can enhance connectivity, resilience and long-term growth. He added that the project was made possible through close collaboration with the government.
Antigua Cruise Port’s general manager, Gasper George, said the terminal was completed in under a year and that the wider Upland Development is expected to be finished by mid-year.
He described the opening as a new phase for the country’s cruise sector, noting that larger ships and rising passenger expectations require destinations to adapt.
Mr George said cruise tourism has a wide economic impact, supporting transport providers, tour operators, vendors, retailers, restaurants, hotels and other service industries across Antigua and Barbuda.
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Stop with the nonsense. Puerto Rico, Barbados, St. Kitts are way ahead of Antigua.
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#NextLeveel
Everyone remembers when UPP’s dunce elements PROTESTED against GPH including the taxidriver Chalky and nobody tarl benefit more than Chalky and UPP people, but for politics they want to cut off dem nose to spite dem face.
We are definitely SAFER WITH LABOUR🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
Cruise gateways often see higher visitor spend compared to port-of-call stops.
Please
The Old year saw five dozen antiguans embarking on the ARVIA. They spent five long days in the Barbados’ sea-space while P&O cruises awaited passengers from TUI (a charter plane entity that allegedly to return to the UK mid-flight on Saturday December 3)
ANY RETURNED HEAD TAX FOR THE PORTS MISSED? NO!
These big conglomerates only care about their kind.
I love my country and live to hear when it does well, but don’t bother fool us for performative politics tap dog, the logistics at our port is a chaos, where both cargo ships and cruise ship using the same port way, and our port don’t have the turn basin for large cruise ships or cargo boats, the size that could go to Bahamas and Jamaica and mexico can’t fit in our shallow waters, that cruise port should either be located somewhere else or a docking built from rat island about a mile out. But this may sound like foolish ideas but in the future the youths will do it.
@homeporting is a JOKE
Its really sad that the Ministry of Tourism did not negotiate better for Antigua’s ‘Unique’ properties with this P&O conglomerate
In barbados (the leader in C’bbean homeporting), there are many ships that receive passengers from Airbnbs or local hotels.who fly into our countries to board the ship.
ARVIA instead, in my opinion, has dissed the local (in antigua and barbados) properties and provided the accommodation for the two days that the ship is in port.
In my opinion, ARVIA doesn’t need to come back to antigua or barbbados next season. Guest houses and Unique properties dont benefit from this specific homeporting arrangement. Already, cruise passengers dont like to spend locally UNLESS THEY ABSOLUTELY MUST
@eldread…
…as, those children of the future
…those who’ll reform nature
…with feats, of engineering
…yet, to be seen
…on Our beloved Antigua
…life’s still, a dream within a dream
…so, to you the dread eldread
…you’re making sense; well said!
Now, Japan Osaka International Airport (KIX) a feat of engineering in itself is built some three miles offshore on an artificial Island.
Many moon cycles ago, while blogging on A Antigua Me Cum From on the now defunct YAHOO GROUPS platform, I had one of those “Dreams Within A Dream,” a poem by a literary master Edgar Allen Poe, and in this dream I had redesigned St. John’s City (L. Flax, Villa363, Scheherazade were the top bloggers then, as a matter of fact, Villa363 thought it was a great idea; later, I repeated the same thing in Antigua Newsroom, Skye one of my #Frenamy’s took credit for my education 🤣🤣 Skye, ah wah U ah say papa, U Ghanaian famblee reach a yard; and, Lester Flax would’ve love to see it on paper in schematic form) but anyways, SANDY ISLAND west of St. John’s would’ve become a WASTE MANAGEMENT SITE, to deal with not only raw sewage (which is now having St. John’s reeking and stinking), the dredged materials would be used to build up SANDY ISLAND; but, as with all things coming from Dutty Foot 🦶🏿 GARRAT bastard’s like me, who was aborted at birth, yet even though I was tossed out with the bathwater, little did I realize, until many moons after, that I was swaddled in a cloak of iridescence by the Essence of Nature’s Ether, to become wise enough to know, that LIFE ‘tis but, A Dream Within A Dream.
Our present cohorts of those charged with the management of Our Nation are referenced by another great poet The Mighty Sparrow, in his GOOD CITIZEN!
…when does someone really become a Good Citizen?
…I’d like to know for sure!
…why when the ordinary man disagrees with the establishment
…they call it treason?
…the real traitors are all high in society
…yet, the government protecting all of them
…and penalizing you and me!
…AND, in a million ways they violate the law
…it’s the same good, no good BASTARDS who oppress the poor
…they selling black market, making excess profits, paying a starvation salary!
…these good citizens (TOP DAWG GASSY), are the architects of ECONOMIC SLAVERY.
Nuff respect…
Jumbee_Picknee aka Ras Smood
De’ole Dutty Peg 🦶🏿 GARRAT_Bastard
Vere Edwards
OK ANR Editors, dropping dis yah twice,
Cause, U lub fu play blind mice
To censor opposing voice
As poor people try fu get rid of our HUEman lice
Hey Donald Trump, Minnesotans are calling you a COCKATRICE
Because of the behaviors of your brigade called I.C.E.
Who’re not treating some American Citizens NICE!
@eldread…
…as, those children of the future
…those who’ll reform nature
…with feats, of engineering
…yet, to be seen
…on Our beloved Antigua
…life’s still, a dream within a dream
…so, to you the dread eldread
…you’re making sense; well said!
Now, Japan Osaka International Airport (KIX) a feat of engineering in itself is built some three miles offshore on an artificial Island.
Many moon cycles ago, while blogging on A Antigua Me Cum From on the now defunct YAHOO GROUPS platform, I had one of those “Dreams Within A Dream,” a poem by a literary master Edgar Allen Poe, and in this dream I had redesigned St. John’s City (L. Flax, Villa363, Scheherazade were the top bloggers then, as a matter of fact, Villa363 thought it was a great idea; later, I repeated the same thing in Antigua Newsroom, Skye one of my #Frenamy’s took credit for my education 🤣🤣 Skye, ah wah U ah say papa, U Ghanaian famblee reach a yard; and, Lester Flax would’ve love to see it on paper in schematic form) but anyways, SANDY ISLAND west of St. John’s would’ve become a WASTE MANAGEMENT SITE, to deal with not only raw sewage (which is now having St. John’s reeking and stinking), the dredged materials would be used to build up SANDY ISLAND; but, as with all things coming from Dutty Foot 🦶🏿 GARRAT bastard’s like me, who was aborted at birth, yet even though I was tossed out with the bathwater, little did I realize, until many moons after, that I was swaddled in a cloak of iridescence by the Essence of Nature’s Ether, to become wise enough to know, that LIFE ‘tis but, A Dream Within A Dream.
Our present cohorts of those charged with the management of Our Nation are referenced by another great poet The Mighty Sparrow, in his GOOD CITIZEN!
…when does someone really become a Good Citizen?
…I’d like to know for sure!
…why when the ordinary man disagrees with the establishment
…they call it treason?
…the real traitors are all high in society
…yet, the government protecting all of them
…and penalizing you and me!
…AND, in a million ways they violate the law
…it’s the same good, no good BASTARDS who oppress the poor
…they selling black market, making excess profits, paying a starvation salary!
…these good citizens (TOP DAWG GASSY), are the architects of ECONOMIC SLAVERY.
Nuff respect…
Jumbee_Picknee aka Ras Smood
De’ole Dutty Peg 🦶🏿 GARRAT_Bastard
Vere Edwards
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