Don Diego Terminal
The Don Diego Terminal boast a contemporary, functional design, styled to take advantage of natural light and the terminal’s easy access to the Colonial City.
The terminal has two cruise reception areas, the North and South wings.
The North Wing, with a surface area of 435 square metres (4,680 sq ft), is used mostly as a transit reception area. Its most distinctive feature is the large marine stained-glass facade. The terminal also has an entrance hall with a stand for information, access to an international and local telecommunications center (phone and internet), currency exchange and restrooms.
The South Wing, which can double as a transit and a homeport terminal has an ample 820-square-metre (8,800 sq ft) hall, which includes modular duty-free stores, check-in facilities and pier access.
The terminal has parking facilities for visitors and a specially designated parking spaces for tourism company buses, which can easily coordinate the exits and arrivals of their cruises clients.
An integral lighting system that includes all the outside and perimeter area of Don Diego Terminal, for greater security and nocturnal visibility to visitors; the pier’s perimeter is completely surrounded by an interlocked fence and has a safe circulation area with restricted access. The terminal also has a security surveillance CCTV systems as well as specialized port security personnel.
Don Diego Terminal has ISPS Certification.
'The Don Diego Pier specifications are:
- Length of pier: 400 meters / 1296 feet
- Height of pier AWL: 2.16 meters / 7 feet
- Apron width: 10 meters / 32 feet
- Fenders: panel fenders - 7 feet (2.1 m) high
- Distance between bollards: 12 meters / 38 feet
- Strength of bollards: 100 tons pull
- Depth of water at low tide: 9.7 meters / 31.4 feet
- Turning basin max length: 370 meters / 1200 feet
- Max LOA allowed: 360 meters / 1166 feet
- Availability of gangway: No
- Distance from pier to city: 0.1 miles
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