The MSC Cruise Terminal has been formally inaugurated with the Ribbon Cutting Ceremony on April 5, 2025, and is already being celebrated in many ways, primarily as the largest cruise terminal in the world, capable of handling three vessels at the same time—the equivalent of 36,000 passengers per day.

This is remarkable, but I feel that this is actually a hidden engineering gem, a premium example of American Italian collaboration in structural engineering, in this case using steel construction. The steel columns and beams that form the structure of the terminal were completely fabricated in Italy and shipped to Miami to be assembled ‘in situ’ and then inspected by licensed American inspectors.