TEAM in new ferry terminal expansion in Mexico and Morocco

The world’s leading designer and manufacturer of sophisticated passenger boarding bridges (PBBs) for cruise and ferry terminals, Barcelona-based TEAM, has secured new contracts for ferry terminals in Mexico and Morocco.

Under a contract from Mexico’s Port Authority of Quintana Roo SA de C.V. TEAM is to supply in early 2010 two of its Pegasus-range of PBBs to the modernised ferry terminal at San Miguel on the Mexican island of Cozumel. The contract also includes the option for another set of PBBs to be installed in late 2010.  

The ferry service linking the island of Cozumel with the Mexican mainland at Playa del Carmen, on the Yucatan Peninsular, a 45 min trip, carried 1.4m passengers in 2007, with the service growing. In 2008 the Port Authority of Quintana Roo started an upgrading process of the ferry terminal, which is located at the centre of downtown San Miguel de Cozumel, next to the Punta Langosta Cruise Ship Pier. When work is completed in early 2010, the Cozumel ferry terminal will be the first of its kind in Mexico and the Caribbean to be equipped with modern passenger access systems.

Tangier Med Port is Morocco’s new passenger and cargo port located on the Straits of Gibraltar, 40km east of Tangier and just 15km from Spain at the shortest distance between the continents of Africa and Europe. TEAM has been contracted by the Moroccan government agency Tangier Mediterranean Special Agency (TMSA) to design and manufacture four PBBs of the SEDNA design to facilitate safe and secure boarding and disembarkation for the 2m ferry passengers expected to transit the passenger terminal each year. The four PBBs will be delivered in the first quarter of 2010. Sphere: Related Content