FIRST RELEASE

CROATIAN BUREAU OF STATISTICS
10000 ZAGREB, ILICA 3, PHONE: +385 1 4806-111, P.O.B. 80, CROATIA

ISSN 1334-0565

 

YEAR: XLVI.

ZAGREB, 6 AUGUST, 2009

NUMBER: 4.4.7/2.

 

 

OBLIGED TO NOTIFY DATA SOURCE

 

FOREIGN VESSELS ON CRUISE IN THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA

 January – June 2009

 

In the period from January to June 2009, foreign vessels realised 262 cruises in the Republic of Croatia. During these cruises, the total of 339 709 passengers arrived. They stayed for 468 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 9.7% and the number of passengers entering the Republic of Croatia in this manner increased by 5.4%. The total number of passengers’ sojourns in Croatia was by 28.2% lower than in the same period last year.

 

 

1.  CRUISES OF FOREIGN VESSELS

 

 

2008.

2009.

Indices
2009.
2008.

 

 

 

 

Cruises

290

262

90,3

 

 

 

 

Sojourns

652

468

71,8

 

 

 

 

Passengers

322 196

339 709

105,4

 

 

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

Country of flag

Cruises

Sojourns

Passengers

VI.

I. – VI.

 VI.

I. – VI.

VI.

I. – VI.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

100

262

189

468

129 343

339 709

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bahamas

20

46

28

59

17 298

43 592

Belgium

4

13

12

53

1 403

4 310

Bermudas

7

16

9

18

12 017

26 922

Finland

-

2

-

3

-

792

France

7

17

12

25

359

958

Greece

1

1

2

2

27

27

Italy

14

38

14

38

38 698

101 558

Malta

12

35

58

130

8 702

20 162

Marshall Islands

2

7

2

8

1 104

3 957

Netherlands

3

8

3

8

6 052

15 737

Netherlands Antilles

2

4

4

8

2 400

4 845

Germany

-

1

-

1

-

484

Panama

13

38

13

38

32 434

92 988

Portugal

9

19

22

42

1 652

3 746

Saint Vincent and Grenadines

2

6

6

24

78

270

United Kingdom

4

11

4

11

7 119

19 361

 

 

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 – JUNE 20091)

Month

Cruises

Sojourns

Passengers

2008.

2009.

2008.

2009.

2008.

2009.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

290

262

652

468

322 196

339 709

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

VI.

110

100

234

189

123 603

129 343

 

 

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

‘000     thousand

 

Symbols

 

-  no occurrence