Appleby Engaged By Cayman Islands Government On Cruise Berthing Activity

The Cayman Islands Government has recently approved the Outline Business Case (OBC) for a new two finger pier berthing facility to accommodate cruise ships in George Town. Appleby have been engaged by Government to provide legal consultancy services with respect to the project. This is an encouraging step following the failure of successive administrations to get the project to the construction phase.

Government has indicated that there are two important criteria for this project – no commercial development on the dock and existing Government revenue cannot be used to fund the plan. Having been engaged months ago to provide financial & technical consultancy with respect to the project, PricewaterhouseCoopers produced the OBC which contemplates the project being done through a public-private partnership (PPP).  This would require private interests to finance, develop and possibly operate the new cruise berthing facilities and require the creation of new revenue