Government has confirmed it is considering plans for a new cruise ship terminal in St George’s in a bid to bring more passengers to the Island.Last week, St George’s MP Kenneth Bascome suggested that plans were in the pipeline for a cruise ship to make regular calls on the town, saying: “Hopefully there will be some negotiations going on in the very near future.”The Government backbencher also refused to deny rumours that Disney Cruises is interested in developing a terminal in the East End.And Tourism and Transport Minister Shawn Crockwell later confirmed the rumour.“We are in conversations with the cruise industry reviewing the options for a cruise pier in St George’s,” he said in the House of Assembly last week.“That is something that’s high on our agenda and something we have to do for that area.”Responding to questions from The Royal Gazette, a spokesman for the Ministry of Tourism and Transport said Government was hoping to bring 415,000 cruise passengers to the Island by 2015 — up from an estimated 343,000 cruise visitors this year.The spokesman added that in order to reach cruise visitor targets, another cruise ship terminal is required.“The National Tourism Plan 2012 that will be implemented by the new Bermuda Tourism Authority recommends a target of 415,000 cruise visitor arrivals by 2015, and 422,000 cruise visitor arrivals by 2022,” the spokesman said.“This year’s estimate for cruise visitors is 343,000. To date, the highest number of cruise passengers was in 2011 when we received approximately 410,000 passengers and the scheduled weekly callers included the Veendam which made 24 calls to Hamilton.“It is unlikely that the Tourism Plan target of 413,000 to 422,000 cruise visitors can be obtained with just the two cruise piers at Dockyard, therefore consideration is being given to options for an east end, St George’s cruise presence. At this stage no decision has been made.”Despite its desire to bring in more cruise visitors, Government is still intent on bringing in even more air passengers in order to reverse present visitor ratios. Currently around 60 percent of tourists arrive on cruise ships, with 40 percent coming to Bermuda by air.Mr Crockwell said that ratio was not balanced, and that Government wanted to see a majority share of total visitor arrivals made up of air passengers.In his comments last week, Mr Bascome said that Penno’s Wharf would be the likely location for a new terminal.He said that commercial activity currently taking place at the wharf could be shifted to Marginal Wharf — once that had been upgraded — and that the Town Cut channel would have to be widened to allow larger cruise ships access to the town.