Tuesday 27 February 2024
Ahead of the cruise season, to enhance passenger safety and to enable Albert Pier to remain open more often during cruise visits, changes will be made to the layout of the pier.
The first phase of works is taking place from Tuesday 27th to Thursday 29th February and will involve slightly reducing the width of the northern walkway by moving steel posts. This will require the 24 spaces along the northern edge to be suspended for these three days.
The overall works will create safer walkways for cruise passengers, which helps to remove some of the pedestrian/vehicle conflicts, meaning the car park and the cruise function will be able to operate simultaneously to some extent on all but the busiest of cruise days.
These changes will not affect the accessible spaces on Albert Pier.
Mark Renouf, Cruise and Surveys Operations Manager, said:
"The cruise industry is a valuable contributor to the island's economy and we want to make sure that visiting cruise ship passengers receive the warmest welcome to Guernsey from the moment they set foot ashore. Changing the layout of the pier to improve safety is a very practical consideration, but still an important part of that overall first perception of our island. We're pleased that the benefits of these changes also extend to islanders as well, reducing the amount of times that we will need to fully close the Albert Pier for visiting cruise ships compared to previous years."
