All starting for the Terminal

The MSAR Government has officially signed a contract with local company CSI Group Ltd. for the management and explotation of commercial areas at the newly developed Taipa Ferry Terminal, a release from the Marine and Water Bureau (DSAMA) yesterday revealed.
The concession will take effect from July 1, with a duration period of 36 months.
According to the release, the contract signing will allow the gradual installation of food and beverage vending machines, travel agency offices, hotel reception stands, currency exchange offices and bakeries in the first phase, with food and beverage establishments and duty-free stores opening afterwards.
The new Taipa ferry Terminal officially started operations on June 1 after 10 years of development and a cost of MOP3.8 billion (US$475 million) but without currently functioning commercial areas.
In the release, DSAMA states that in August of last year it opened a public tender for the Terminal’s four main services, with contracts for cleaning, security and maintenance already in effect.
Due to the commercial area requiring an exclusive contract, however, and with one of the candidates ‘giving up on the tender’ during the process ‘administrative procedures took longer’.
Now the department has requested that CSI Group Ltd. ‘prepare correctly . . . [and] . . . as fast as possible’ its plan for attracting businesses to the Terminal.