ADELTE to design, build and install four boarding bridges at MSC’s PortMiami cruise terminal

Designed by global architecture firm Arquitectonica, the four-story building with four embarkation decks and four SPBBs will be able to accommodate up to 36,000 passengers a day, and presents sufficient berthing space to serve three of MSC’s latest generation cruise ships simultaneously. ADELTE will commission all four SPBBs in 2024.

 ‘We are very proud to be part of this state-of-the-art project. Being able to partner with MSC, Fincantieri Infrastructure and Arquitectonica and to provide our unique boarding bridge design and technology for an iconic new cruise terminal in PortMiami is the result of our everlasting drive for excellence,’ says Jordi Floreta, VP and B.U. director at ADELTE.

Designed and built in Spain

The HYDRA type boarding bridges are designed at ADELTE’s offices in Barcelona and manufactured at ADELTE’s facilities in Monzón (Spain).

Each steel-structured SPBB is composed of multiple glass walled tunnel sections, a docking cabin, a building connection module and lifting and translation systems.

The docking cabin will be ADELTE’s most technologically sophisticated, composed of three parts, which compensates all the movements of a cruise ship when it is docked. Electromechanical elevation systems in the columns allow the SPBB to reach a boarding height of 16mtr over sea level. The four SPBBs can move longitudinally along the quay, allowing the boarding from any door position of MSC’s Cruise Terminal building. The bridges will be designed and constructed to ease regular maintenance tasks.

Once install and commissioned at the MSC Cruise Terminal, ADELTE will have a total of 12 SPBBs in operation in PortMiami (Cruise Terminals AA/AAA, B, C, D and F) and a total of 33 units in operation at cruise and ferry terminals in North America.