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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 FEBRUARY, 2010

NUMBER: 4.4.7/8.

 

 

OBLIGED TO NOTIFY DATA SOURCE

 

FOREIGN VESSELS ON CRUISE IN THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA, 2009.

 

In 2009, foreign vessels realised 754 cruises. They stayed in the internal sea waters of the Republic of Croatia for 1 264 days, which was 2 days on the average. During these cruises, the total of 989 272 cruise passengers arrived. Most of the cruises were realised in the County of Dubrovnik-Neretva.

 

As compared to 2008, the number of cruises decreased by 8.3%, while the number of cruise passengers entering the Republic of Croatia in this manner increased by 5.3%. The total number of vessel stays in the Republic of Croatia was by 19.4% lower than in the same period last year.

 

 

1.   CRUISES OF FOREIGN VESSELS

 

 

 2008.

 2009.

Indices

 2009.
 2008.

 

 

 

 

Cruises

822

754

91,7

 

 

 

 

Sojourns

1 569

1 264

80,6

 

 

 

 

Cruise passengers

939 848

989 272

105,3

 

 

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

Country of flag

Cruises

Sojourns

Cruise passengers

XII.

I. – XII.

XII.

I. – XII.

XII.

I. – XII.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

8

754

15

1 264

183

989 272

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bahamas

-

159

-

201

-

141 703

Belgium

-

34

-

121

-

14 986

Bermudas

-

42

-

46

-

72 611

Finland

-

5

-

8

-

1 956

France

-

33

-

60

-

2 445

Gibraltar

-

2

-

3

-

24

Greece

-

10

-

27

-

372

Italy

-

112

-

112

-

301 585

Luxembourg

-

7

-

12

-

1 226

Malta

8

121

15

361

183

71 333

Marshall Islands

-

22

-

24

-

14 055

Netherlands

-

20

-

20

-

38 439

Netherlands Antilles

-

11

-

24

-

13 613

Germany

-

1

-

1

-

484

Panama

-

107

-

123

-

251 846

Portugal

-

31

-

65

-

7 172

Saint Vincent and Grenadines

-

6

-

24

-

270

United Kingdom

-

30

-

30

-

54 944

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, 20091)

Month

Cruises

Sojourns

Cruise passengers

2008.

2009.

2008.

2009.

2008.

2009.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

822

754

1 569

1 264

939 848

989 272

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

XI.

30

38

40

51

46 381

59 281

XII.

2

8

2

15

3 424

183

 

 

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