The Cape Liberty Cruise Port is one of three trans-

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passenger terminals in the

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. It is located in

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at the north side of the long pier of the

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, a former military ocean terminal, and began operations in 2004.

History

The Cape Liberty Cruise Port is located on a site that had been originally developed for industrial uses in the 1930s and then taken over by the U.S. government during

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as the

Military Ocean Terminal at Bayonne Military Ocean Terminal at Bayonne (MOTBY) was a U.S. military ocean terminal located in the Port of New York and New Jersey which operated from 1967 to 1999. From 1942 to 1967 the site was the Bayonne Naval Drydock. The site is on Upper New Yor ...

. After conversion of a portion of the site for use as a passenger terminal with full customs and immigration facilities, in May 2004, the '' Voyager of the Seas'' became the first ship to depart from the site, the first time in almost four decades that a passenger ship had departed from a port in the state. The ''Voyager of the Seas'' was one of two ships to have her base of operations shifted to Bayonne from the Manhattan Cruise Terminal on the

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waterfront of

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's West Side.

Operators

Royal Caribbean is one of the port's primary tenants. In May 2006 the – then the world's largest cruise ship – was christened in a broadcast carried live on the NBC's '' The Today Show''.

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bases the ''

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'' out of Cape Liberty from May to October. Before the cruise terminal opened in 2004, no cruise ships had been based out of the New Jersey Hudson Waterfront since the

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left its

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dock several decades previously. The ''

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'' was originally supposed to begin to sail out of Cape Liberty in May 2020, but due to the

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, it ended up beginning to sail out in September 2021 for the 2022–24 seasons.

Ferry service

The city of Bayonne has rented land from PANYNJ and is negotiating with SeaStreak to establish ferry service to Manhattan, with a terminal adjacent to the cruise port. Service was expected to begin in September 2020.

References

External links

Official website
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History

Operators

Ferry service

See also

References

External links