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CROATIAN BUREAU OF STATISTICS
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ISSN 1334-0565

 

YEAR: XLVI.

ZAGREB, 2 JULY, 2009

NUMBER: 4.4.7/1.

 

 

OBLIGED TO NOTIFY DATA SOURCE

 

FOREIGN VESSELS ON CRUISE IN THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA

 January – May 2009

 

In the period from January to May 2009, foreign vessels realised 162 cruises in the Republic of Croatia. During these cruises, the total of 210 366 passengers arrived. They stayed for 279 days in the Republic of Croatia, 2 days on the average. Most of the cruises were realised in the County of Dubrovnik-Neretva.

 

As compared to the same period of 2008, the number of cruises decreased by 10% and the number of passengers entering the Republic of Croatia in this manner increased by 5.9%. The total number of passengers’ sojourns in Croatia was by 33.3% lower than in the same period last year.

 

 

1.   CRUISES OF FOREIGN VESSELS

 

 

I. – V. 2008.

I. – V. 2009.

Indices

I. – V. 2009.
I. – V. 2008.

 

 

 

 

Cruises

180

162

90,0

 

 

 

 

Sojourns

418

279

66,7

 

 

 

 

Passengers

198 593

210 366

105,9

 

 

 

2.   NUMBER OF CRUISES OF FOREIGN VESSELS, NUMBER OF SOJOURNS AND NUMBER OF PASSENGERS, BY FLAG OF VESSEL, JANUARY – MAY 20091)

Country of flag

Cruises

Sojourns

Passengers

V.

I. – V.

 V.

I. – V.

V.

I. – V.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

113

162

180

279

145 474

210 366

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bahamas

18

26

19

31

19 679

26 294

Belgium

4

9

18

41

1 357

2 907

Bermudas

7

9

7

9

12 079

14 905

Finland

1

2

1

3

413

792

France

9

10

11

13

545

599

Italy

18

24

18

24

45 607

62 860

Malta

13

23

37

72

6 318

11 460

Marshall Islands

4

5

5

6

2 269

2 853

Netherlands

4

5

4

5

7 795

9 685

Netherlands Antilles

2

2

4

4

2 445

2 445

Germany

-

1

-

1

-

484

Panama

15

25

15

25

36 097

60 554

Portugal

9

10

18

20

1 953

2 094

Saint Vincent and Grenadines

4

4

18

18

192

192

United Kingdom

5

7

5

7

8 725

12 242

 

 

1)    The analysis covers seaports of the first entry of a foreign vessel into the territorial waters of the Republic of Croatia.

 

 

3.   NUMBER OF CRUISES OF FOREIGN VESSELS, NUMBER OF SOJOURNS AND NUMBER OF PASSENGERS, BY MONTHS,
      JANUARY – MAY 20091)

Month

Cruises

Sojourns

Passengers

2008.

2009.

2008.

2009.

2008.

2009.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

180

162

418

279

198 593

210 366

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I.

-

-

-

-

-

-

II.

3

-

33

-

152

-

III.

14

4

46

8

12 737

1 438

IV.

58

45

139

91

56 687

63 454

V.

105

113

200

180

129 017

145 474

 

 

1)    The analysis covers seaports of the first entrance of a foreign vessel into the territorial waters of the Republic of Croatia.

 

 

NOTES ON METHODOLOGY

 

The data source is the regular survey entitled Cruises of Foreign Vessels in the Republic of Croatia (TU-19 form), carried out on a monthly basis.

 

Data collection is done by using the reporting method. Reporting units are port authorities engaged in the management, construction and usage of seaports open for public traffic. The establishment and operation of port authorities is defined by the Seaport Act (NN, No. 108/95). The report is filled in by a port authority that is in charge of a port in which a vessel’s first entrance into the Croatian territorial waters was recorded.

 

Observation unit for this survey is a foreign vessel on a tourist cruise that enters the Croatian territorial waters.

 

A cruise is a tourist journey that lasts for several days according to a specified itinerary (elaborated plan of a journey) for cruises.

 

Abbreviations

 

NN    Narodne novine, official gazette of the Republic of Croatia

 

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