- $12: How much cruise ship passengers used to be charged to disembark in San Francisco
- $18: How much that fee has been raised to, to help keep the project to construct a new cruise ship terminal "afloat" (good one, Examiner)
- 260,000: The number of passengers expected to disembark in San Francisco (and to pay that fee) this year
- $100 million: The cost of San Francisco's new cruise ship terminal at Pier 27
- $217,850: The amount of money "in the red" the Port of San Francisco's cruise ship operations ended up in last year (July 2012-July 2013)
- 64: The number of cruise ships that docked at "the aging, too-small and hard-to-access" Pier 35 terminal last year
- 74: The number of ships expected to dock in San Francisco this year
- 90: The number of cruise ship dockings the Port will need (in addition to 180 paid parking places and private events, see below) to break even in 2015
- $46,000: The amount, per private event at the new terminal, that the Port hopes to charge companies like LinkedIn and Salesforce
- 67: The number of private events the Port of San Francisco needs (in addition to those 90 ship dockings and 180 paid parking places) to book to break even next year
- 330: The number of days a year the new terminal would need to host an activity (event or docking) to reach their booking goals
- $1 million: The amount of money the Port of San Francisco will lose next year if only 45 events are booked, and only 70 ships visit the new terminal
- $533,000: The amount of profit the Port expects to make next year if they hit all their goals
- 9/18/14: The date the first cruise ships are expected to dock in the new terminal
All facts and figures: Port banks on parties to make cruise terminal profit, May 27, 2014, SF Examiner. You can read the entire Fiscal Responsibility and Feasibility report here.
