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

ISSN 1334-0565

 

YEAR: XLVI.

ZAGREB, 2 SEPTEMBER, 2009

NUMBER: 4.4.7/3.

 

 

OBLIGED TO NOTIFY DATA SOURCE

 

FOREIGN VESSELS ON CRUISE IN THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA

 January – July 2009

 

In the period from January to July 2009, foreign vessels realised 388 cruises in the Republic of Croatia. During these cruises, the total of 485 708 passengers arrived. They stayed for 687 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 2.8% and the number of passengers entering the Republic of Croatia in this manner increased by 8%. The total number of passengers’ sojourns in Croatia was by 18.6% lower than in the same period last year.

 

 

1.   CRUISES OF FOREIGN VESSELS

 

 

I. – VII. 2008.

I. – VII. 2009.

Indices

I. – VII. 2009.
I. – VII. 2008.

 

 

 

 

Cruises

399

388

97,2

 

 

 

 

Sojourns

844

687

81,4

 

 

 

 

Passengers

449 783

485 708

108,0

 

 

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

Country of flag

Cruises

Sojourns

Passengers

VII.

I. – VII.

 VII.

I. – VII.

VII.

I. – VII.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

126

388

219

687

145 999

485 708

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bahamas

28

74

38

97

18 436

62 028

Belgium

5

18

25

78

1 456

5 766

Bermudas

6

22

6

24

11 979

38 901

Finland

-

2

-

3

-

792

France

13

30

28

53

1 301

2 259

Greece

7

8

15

17

296

323

Italy

16

54

16

54

43 575

145 133

Luxembourg

4

4

6

6

790

790

Malta

15

50

35

165

12 524

32 686

Marshall Islands

3

10

4

12

2 072

6 029

Netherlands

3

11

3

11

6 168

21 905

Netherlands Antilles

2

6

6

14

2 513

7 358

Germany

-

1

-

1

-

484

Panama

15

53

21

59

36 084

129 072

Portugal

5

24

12

54

1 200

4 946

Saint Vincent and Grenadines

-

6

-

24

-

270

United Kingdom

4

15

4

15

7 605

26 966

 

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 – JULY 20091)

Month

Cruises

Sojourns

Passengers

2008.

2009.

2008.

2009.

2008.

2009.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

399

388

844

687

449 783

485 708

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

VII.

109

126

192

219

127 587

145 999

 

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

 

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