Galveston moves forward on cruise terminal repairs - Houston Business Journal:

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Gerald Sullivan, chairman of the Boardc of Trustees of theGalveston Wharves, which overseesz port operations, said crews are working around the clock on the damaged terminal The first ship scheduled to deparf after that target date is the Ecstacy, operated by , on Oct. 4. The agrees to divert Carnival Cruise Line shipes to its newly opened Bayport Cruise Terminal afteer Hurricane Ike smashed into the Gulf Coast on Sept. 13. Hundreds of cruise ship customers’ vehicles left that weekendf in Galveston’s port parking lots were destroyecd or damaged by the massivestorm Galveston’s port has re-opened to smaller vesselsw while dredging issues are being worked out.
Althoughy access to Pelican Island had been cut off the week aftere the hurricaneroared through, Sullivan said one of the port’s key Pelican Island tenants, , re-opened on 22 with limited operations. Sullivan was part of the grouo of officials representingthe Houston-Galveston region, includinvg Houston Mayor Bill White, that traveled to Washington, D.C., on 23 to make a pitch for a huge infusiojn of federal funding in the wake of Ike’s Galveston Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas has requestex a $2.4 billion rescus package to be used to restore infrastructurde on the island and for repairs to the , campus, the port and the Mayor White requested a similar amount for Houston.
Sullivahn said the group was metwith “sympathetif ears” in the nation’s capital, and he expects a decisiojn on the special fundin g allocation could be reached within a week. Damages from Ike’sx path of destruction acrossz Texas are estimated to rangsebetween $25 billion and $50