The project cost over £405 million (Image: Wikipedia)
The world’s largest privately held managed to do something extraordinary in just four years.
, the Swiss-Italian cruise line transformed an industrial wasteland in the into a beautiful exclusive holiday destination for it’s passengers to enjoy.
With cruise ships only having so many ports to stop off at, over the last few years many have seen a surge in visitors but unfortunately people just do not want to deal with the crowds anymore.
In the space of just four years, using a whopping £405 million the impressive cruise line company was able to completely transform a site full of waste into a stunning .
Cruise lines developing private island is nothing new, in fact it has been going on since the 1980s, when Great Stirrup Cay in the Bahamas was purchased by Norwegian Cruise Lines, reports The Wall Street Journal.
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Ocean Cay is in the Bahamas (Image: Wikipedia)
Today, we see many cruise lines including Disney and Royal Caribbean that have their own islands across the region which generates revenue for the countries who lease their land and charge port fees.
MSC signed their 100-year lease on Ocean Cay in the Bahamas, back in 2015.
The manmade island was dregded from the sea by the Dillingham Coroporation to mine sand back in the 1960s, around 40 years later there were plans to turn the site into a natural gas plant but it didn’t work out and the area was later abandoned.
Despite it being completely covered in waste, the cruise line saw the island as an “opportunity.”
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MSC cruise line own the private island (Image: Getty)
Andrew Brett, Managing Director of MSC Ocean Cay said: “The island was chosely primaririly for its proximity to the US, we are only 65 miles away from the US, Florida and Miami and Cape Canaveral. That means that we can have overnight ships and double ship day calls.”
The island is home to 200 people who live there full-time to maintain a resort feel for the thousands of guests that arrive to Ocean Cay everyday.
MSC also have plans to grown by extending another island opposite Ocean Cay. While it is not known when this will be completed, in a statement, the company said: “The future use of the expanded island is still under construction, and we look forward to sharing our vision for it once a plan is finalized.”