TEAM in major Spanish passenger boarding bridge contracts

One of the world’s leading designers and suppliers of passenger boarding bridges for cruise ships and ferries, Spain’s TEAM, has secured more contracts at domestic cruise ship ports.

The Barcelona-based company has just secured a contract from Malaga Cruceros SA to deliver in the spring of 2009 two of its Pegasus-type of passenger boarding bridges for the Estacion Maritima de Levante cruise terminal in the port of Malaga.

This new cruise terminal has been in operation for just under 12 months and handled 270 cruise calls and 335,000 passengers in 2008, and increase of 14.5% on figures for 2007.

Earlier this year TEAM delivered a single Pegasus passenger boarding bridge for the south berth of the new Malaga cruise terminal. Summer 2009 will see the completion of the construction of the north berth, where the two recently ordered bridges will be located.

Meanwhile, in a separate contract, TEAM is to design and supply a new type of passenger boarding bridge for Creuers del Port de Barcelona. Named the Creuers Barcelona-class of bridge, the two units will be delivered in the summer of 2009 and is designed to fit the largest cruise ship in the world, RCCL’s Oasis of the Seas. The large new passenger boarding bridges will operate at the A & B cruise terminals on the Adossado Quay in Barcelona.

One of the main design challenges for TEAM in the design of the Creuers Barcelona-class of bridge is the 6m clearance that needs to be provided for the overhanging lifeboats of Oasis of the Seas and her sisters. Sphere: Related Content