Shipping
Redereies expect more cruise passengers than ever before
Since the end of Corona pandemic, more holidaymakers have been going on cruise year after year. The Clia from Washington’s cruise shipping association assumes that the trend will last.
The International Kreuzschifffahrtsverband Clia is expecting increasing number of passengers this year. This year the Association from Washington is expecting 37.7 million guests on the high seas – and thus a maximum, as the “State of the Cruise Industry Report”. The forecast corresponds to an increase of almost nine percent. Clia justifies the assumption that shipping companies were planning to use larger ships.
Last year, the number of passengers rose by 9.3 percent to 34.6 million guests compared to 2023, as the report stated. Clia Germany boss Georg Ehrmann said about the development that the industry succeeded in opening up new target groups. Most passengers of the shipping companies came from North America – there were 20.5 million. 8.4 million vacationers came from Europe.
The most important travel destination was the Caribbean with almost 15 million guests. Around 5.8 million passengers accounted for the Mediterranean. Around three million customers were counted on European trips outside the Mediterranean.
Clia represents about 60 shipping companies
Clia describes itself as the world’s largest cross -shipping association. According to around 60 shipping companies, the association belong to the information. These include important providers such as AIDA Cruises, TUI Cruises and MSC Cruises in Germany. According to the Clia spokesman, the current passenger statistics also contain data from non-members.
The most important cruise ports in Germany are according to passenger numbers Hamburg, Kiel, Rostock-Warnemünde and Bremerhaven.
dpa
Source: Stern
