Management of the Port of St. Maarten would like to thank all stakeholders for an incident free December 18 when eight cruise ships were in port.
The Port Authority is full of praise to the Police, Coast Guard and other Security Services for an exceptional job in providing their assistance on December 18. Police also provided escort for tour busses in certain cases of traffic congestion.
Port management is also full of praise for the Down Street Business and Community Council with respect to the street fair that was organized on Wednesday. Another street fair is planned for December 21.
Management would also like to thank port staff who did an excellent job as well to ensure that all logistics and other aspects of organization for December 18 would go smoothly.
More than 22,000 cruise passengers visited the island on Wednesday.
A number of activities were organized on Wednesday at the port that included holiday season caroling by various groups, music, dancing along .
The ships that were in port were: Carnival Dream 3652 cruise passengers; Celebrity Reflection 3030; Crystal Serenity 1096; Norwegian Gem 2466; Norwegian Sun 2250; Oasis of the Seas 5400; Ventura 3100; Westerdam 1848.
The last time that the Port of St. Maarten catered to such a large gathering of cruise passengers was back in 2005 with nine ships in port and over 18,000 cruise passengers.