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CROATIAN BUREAU OF STATISTICS
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ISSN 1334-0565

 

YEAR: XLVI.

ZAGREB, 2 DECEMBER, 2009

NUMBER: 4.4.7/6.

 

 

OBLIGED TO NOTIFY DATA SOURCE

 

FOREIGN VESSELS ON CRUISE IN THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA

 January – October 2009

 

In the period from January to October 2009, foreign vessels realised 708 cruises. They stayed in the internal sea waters of the Republic of Croatia for 1198 days, which was 2 days on the average. During these cruises, the total of 929 808 cruise passengers arrived. 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 10.4%, while the number of cruise passengers entering the Republic of Croatia in this manner increased by 4.5%. The total number of vessel stays in the Republic of Croatia was by 21.5% lower than in the same period last year.

 

 

1.   CRUISES OF FOREIGN VESSELS

 

 

I. – X. 2008.

I. – X. 2009.

Indices

I. – X. 2009.
I. – X. 2008.

 

 

 

 

Cruises

790

708

89,6

 

 

 

 

Sojourns

1 527

1 198

78,5

 

 

 

 

Cruise passengers

890 043

929 808

104,5

 

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

Country of flag

Cruises

Sojourns

Cruise passengers

X.

I. – X.

X.

I. – X.

X.

I. – X.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

99

708

147

1 198

135 555

929 808

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bahamas

26

149

29

191

23 129

128 405

Belgium

5

34

14

121

1 341

14 986

Bermudas

5

39

5

43

10 240

66 696

Finland

2

5

4

8

775

1 956

France

-

33

-

60

-

2 445

Gibraltar

-

2

-

3

-

24

Greece

-

10

-

27

-

372

Italy

16

100

16

100

40 360

270 510

Luxembourg

-

7

-

12

-

1 226

Malta

15

105

47

325

5 364

68 777

Marshall Islands

5

20

5

22

3 334

12 722

Netherlands

3

20

3

20

4 578

38 439

Netherlands Antilles

-

11

-

24

-

13 613

Germany

-

1

-

1

-

484

Panama

17

106

17

122

40 523

250 421

Portugal

2

31

4

65

691

7 172

Saint Vincent and Grenadines

-

6

-

24

-

270

United Kingdom

3

28

3

28

5 220

51 082

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 – OCTOBER 20091)

Month

Cruises

Sojourns

Cruise passengers

2008.

2009.

2008.

2009.

2008.

2009.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

790

708

1 527

1 198

890 043

929 808

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

X.

109

99

192

147

124 068

135 555

 

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