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Sleepy
11-22-2008, 10:14 AM
Orlando Business Journal

The Port Canaveral Authority Board of Commissioners (http://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/related_content.html?topic=Port%20Canaveral%20Auth ority%20Board%20of%20Commissioners) has awarded a $4.7 million contract for enhancements that will allow it to accommodate two new Disney Cruise Line (http://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/gen/Disney_Cruise%20Line_4F8616801D984C629B2AB00FF0A6D 846.html) ships that will hold more than 4,000 passengers each.

Misener Marine Construction of Tampa won the contract that includes building a deep-water seawall, additional moorings and dredging. The project, when engineering costs are factored in, is worth about $5.1 million.

The first of the new ships will arrive at the port in 2011 and the second comes a year later.

The port is also building a 1,000-space parking garage to handle additional traffic associated with the ships. Construction of the garage is expected to begin next May and finish in April 2010.