Cruise Capacity Upgrade (NSW)

Making the business case to increase cruise numbers  

The Port Authority of NSW Cruise Capacity Upgrade was a highly complex capital project that sought to address cruise industry capacity issues and facilitate further economic development in NSW through development of a 3rd cruise terminal in Botany Bay, adjacent to the NSW Ports international container port operations.

The project required a full suite of front-end advisory services including development of a strategic and final business case and procurement and delivery strategy dealing with the very complex issues around community and stakeholders, third party interfaces, sensitive environments and affordability constraints.

Our role

The MBB team led the strategic business case and Final Business Case (FBC) in multiple roles including technical lead, project manager and business case lead over a period of 24 months.

Our services

In addition to developing the business cases, MBB also provided strategic advice to the executive, board and senior stakeholders and led the delivery of the commercial and delivery strategy (with traditional and PPP models) and the funding and financing strategy (covering the Commonwealth, state and private sector). This included financial analysis, modelling and impact assessment in collaboration with NSW Treasury.