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ISSN 1334-0565

 

YEAR: XLVI.

ZAGREB, 3 NOVEMBER 2009

NUMBER: 4.4.7/5.

 

 

OBLIGED TO NOTIFY DATA SOURCE

 

FOREIGN VESSELS ON CRUISE IN THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA

 January –September 2009

 

In the period from January to September 2009, foreign vessels realised 609 cruises in the internal sea waters of the Republic of Croatia. During these cruises, the total of 794 253 cruise passengers arrived. They stayed for 1 051 day in the Republic of Croatia, which was 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 10.6%, while the number of cruise passengers entering the Republic of Croatia in this manner increased by 3.7%. The total number of passengers’ sojourns in Croatia was by 21.3% lower than in the same period last year.

 

 

1.   CRUISES OF FOREIGN VESSELS

 

 

I. – IX. 2008.

I. – IX. 2009.

Indices

I. – IX. 2009.
I. – IX. 2008.

 

 

 

 

Cruises

681

609

89,4

 

 

 

 

Sojourns

1 335

1 051

78,7

 

 

 

 

Cruise passengers

765 975

794 253

103,7

 

 

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

Country of flag

Cruises

Sojourns

Cruise passengers

IX.

I. – IX.

IX.

I. – IX.

IX.

I. – IX.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

117

609

190

1 051

154 474

794 253

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bahamas

29

123

39

162

24 767

105 276

Belgium

7

29

17

107

6 588

13 645

Bermudas

6

34

8

38

7 042

56 456

Finland

1

3

1

4

389

1 181

France

-

33

-

60

-

2 445

Gibraltar

-

2

-

3

-

24

Greece

-

10

-

27

-

372

Italy

14

84

14

84

37 441

230 150

Luxembourg

-

7

-

12

-

1 226

Malta

19

90

56

278

13 699

63 413

Marshall Islands

4

15

4

17

2 675

9 388

Netherlands

3

17

3

17

5 710

33 861

Netherlands Antilles

3

11

6

24

3 639

13 613

Germany

-

1

-

1

-

484

Panama

22

89

32

105

42 113

209 898

Portugal

4

29

5

61

1 331

6 481

Saint Vincent and Grenadines

-

6

-

24

-

270

United Kingdom

5

25

5

25

9 080

45 862

Vanuatu

-

1

-

2

-

208

 

 

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

 

 

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

Month

Cruises

Sojourns

Cruise passengers

2008.

2009.

2008.

2009.

2008.

2009.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

681

609

1 335

1 051

765 975

794 253

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

IX.

141

117

250

190

144 429

154 474

 

 

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

NOTES ON METHODOLOGY

 

Sources and methods of data collection

 

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 Maritime Property and Seaport Act (NN, Nos. 158/03 and 141/06). 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 internal sea waters was recorded.

 

Coverage and comparability

 

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

 

Definitions

 

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

 

Number of cruise passengers is the number of passengers excluding the crew. A cruise passenger is any person who arrived by ship irrespective of age, providing that he/she is not a crew member.

 

The total number of sojourns in the internal sea waters of the Republic of Croatia represents the total number of days a ship spends in the internal sea waters of the Republic of Croatia.

 

 

Abbreviations

 

NN      Narodne novine, official gazette of the Republic of Croatia

‘000     thousand

 

 

 

Symbols

 

-  no occurrence