The Direcção Geral dos Portos da Terceira e Graciosa (Directorate-General for the Ports of Terceira and Graciosa), presented on 25 October 2011, in the Centro Cultural e de Congressos (Cultural and Congress Centre) the elaboration of a project of the environmental impact study and process plans for the construction of a new cruiser terminal for the Bay of Angra. The terminal project with a dock of length, would expand the bay to a depth, and provide a wide support platform, with area, and a ferry ramp for roll-on-roll-off operations for inter-island traffic. During the presentation issues were raised as to manoeuvrability of cruise ships within the confined spaces of the Bay, suggesting that the planned design would not permit ships much latitude to manoeuvre. The design called for a protective service area, but that a would be more viable: the mouth of the Monte Brasil channel would have to be expanded in order to support this limited service area.