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Residents from local Trujillo, Honduras communities, along with politicians and business leaders joined recently for groundbreaking on a new 50,000-square-foot mainland cruise port, the first in Honduras.The facility should help answer the call from cruise passengers who love the Caribbean but yearn for new ports to visit. That need leaves Honduras eager to build the next new cruise port.
"This project has a lot of significance for the region," said Honduras President Porfirio Lobo Sosa. "The cruise port will be crucial for the development of Trujillo and its surrounding neighborhoods."
The new port, set to open in 2012, is expected to create more than 3000 jobs and promote tourism to the Banana Coast as an alternative to Roatan, Honduras, Belize City, Belize, and Costa Maya and Cozumel both Mexican ports.
"We can only go to Cozumel just so many times" say frequent cruise passengers bored of the same ports over and over again.
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