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, 2 OCTOBER, 2009

NUMBER: 4.4.7/4.

 

 

OBLIGED TO NOTIFY DATA SOURCE

 

 

FOREIGN VESSELS ON CRUISE IN THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA

 January – August 2009

 

 

In the period from January to August 2009, foreign vessels realised 492 cruises in the Republic of Croatia. During these cruises, the total of 639 779 passengers arrived. They stayed for 861 day 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 8.9%, while the number of passengers entering the Republic of Croatia in this manner increased by 2.9%. The total number of passengers’ sojourns in Croatia was by 20.6% lower than in the same period last year.

 

 

1.   CRUISES OF FOREIGN VESSELS

 

 

I. – VIII. 2008.

I. – VIII. 2009.

Indices

I. – VIII. 2009.
I. – VIII. 2008.

 

 

 

 

Cruises

540

492

91,1

 

 

 

 

Sojourns

1085

861

79,4

 

 

 

 

Passengers

621 546

639 779

102,9

 

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

Country of flag

Cruises

Sojourns

Passengers

VIII.

I. – VIII.

 VIII.

I. – VIII.

VIII.

I. – VIII.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

104

492

174

861

154 071

639 779

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bahamas

20

94

26

123

18 481

80 509

Belgium

4

22

12

90

1 291

7 057

Bermudas

6

28

6

30

10 513

49 414

Finland

-

2

-

3

-

792

France

3

33

7

60

186

2 445

Gibraltar

2

2

3

3

24

24

Greece

2

10

10

27

49

372

Italy

16

70

16

70

47 576

192 709

Luxembourg

3

7

6

12

436

1 226

Malta

21

71

57

222

17 028

49 714

Marshall Islands

1

11

1

13

684

6 713

Netherlands

3

14

3

14

6 246

28 151

Netherlands Antilles

2

8

4

18

2 616

9 974

Germany

-

1

-

1

-

484

Panama

14

67

14

73

38 713

167 785

Portugal

1

25

2

56

204

5 150

Saint Vincent and Grenadines

-

6

-

24

-

270

United Kingdom

5

20

5

20

9 816

36 782

Vanuatu

1

1

2

2

208

208

 

 

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 – AUGUST 20091)

Month

Cruises

Sojourns

Passengers

2008.

2009.

2008.

2009.

2008.

2009.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

540

492

1 085

861

621 546

639 779

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

VIII.

141

104

241

174

171 763

154 071

 

 

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