Following the pandemic pause, the figures for Cruise Europe member ports in 2023 remain the same, or even better. The total number of port calls reached 9,111, while the number of passengers reached 18,935,154.
In terms of the number of stops, Southampton tops the list (497), followed by Lisbon, Bergen, Alesund, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Akureyri, Reykjavik, Orkney Islands and Stavanger (203).
As for the number of passengers, Southampton (2.7 million) also takes first place, but then things change a bit: it is followed by Hamburg, Lisbon, Copenhagen, Alesund, Bergen, Stavanger, OldenLoen, Zeebrugge and Geiranger (471,623).
Jens Skrede, Managing Director of Cruise Europe, says: “These figures are a testament to the hard work our member ports have done to return to normal after Covid-19. They also reflect what has been achieved in recent years.”
“They also reflect what is happening in northern Europe, where some ports west of the Baltic are gaining ground, while those to the east are struggling due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and, consequently, the exclusion of St. Petersburg from Baltic routes.”
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