FIRST RELEASE

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

ISSN 1334-0565

 

YEAR: XLV.

ZAGREB, 2 OCTOBER, 2008

NUMBER: 4.4.9/4.

 

 

OBLIGED TO NOTIFY DATA SOURCE

 

 

FOREIGN VESSELS ON CRUISE IN THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA

January ─ August 2008

 

In the period from January to August 2008, foreign vessels realised 540 cruises in the Republic of Croatia. During these cruises, the total of 621 546 passengers arrived. They stayed for 1 085 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 2007, the number of cruises increased by 38.5% and the number of passengers entering the Republic of Croatia in this manner by 42.5%. The total number of passengers’ sojourns in Croatia was by 71.9% higher than in the same period last year.

 

 

1.   CRUISES OF FOREIGN VESSELS

 

 

I.-VIII. 2007.

I.-VIII. 2008.

Indices

I.-VIII. 2008.
I.-VIII. 2007.

 

 

 

 

Cruises

390

540

138,5

 

 

 

 

Sojourns

631

1 085

171,9

 

 

 

 

Passengers

436 230

621 546

142,5

 

2.   NUMBER OF CRUISES OF FOREIGN VESSELS, NUMBER OF SOJOURNS AND NUMBER OF PASSENGERS, BY FLAG OF VESSEL, JANUARY ― AUGUST 20081)

Country of flag

Cruises

Sojourns

Passengers

VIII.

I. – VIII.

 VIII.

I. – VIII.

VIII.

I. – VIII.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

141

540

241

1 085

171 763

621 546

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bahamas

28

99

36

134

33 257

102 394

Belgium

4

24

12

79

1 407

7 813

Bermudas

5

22

6

25

11 081

39 455

Finland

-

3

-

3

-

 820

France

18

40

32

69

2 174

3 944

Greece

2

18

4

37

2 125

9 300

Italy

19

74

19

75

49 527

172 944

Japan

-

1

-

1

-

 695

Luxembourg

5

10

5

10

919

1 817

Malta

16

74

53

301

11 691

48 428

Marshall Islands

2

12

3

14

1 218

8 069

Netherlands

3

20

3

20

6 132

35 757

Norway

-

5

-

5

-

1 067

Germany

-

2

-

2

-

 765

Panama

14

55

15

56

38 680

150 627

Portugal

11

41

17

140

1 373

7 648

Saint Vincent and Grenadines

7

22

28

94

613

1 289

Vanuatu

1

1

2

2

255

 255

United Kingdom

6

17

6

18

11 311

28 459

 

 

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 20081)

Month

Cruises

Sojourns

Passengers

2007.

2008.

2007.

2008.

2007.

2008.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

390

540

631

1 085

436 230

621 546

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I.

-

-

-

-

-

-

II.

1

3

1

33

177

152

III.

5

14

5

46

7 181

12 737

IV.

40

58

63

139

35 690

56 687

V.

74

105

131

200

65 332

129 017

VI.

97

110

171

234

110 084

123 603

VII.

80

109

135

192

100 843

127 587

VIII.

93

141

125

241

116 923

171 763

 

 

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

 

 

4.   VISITED SEAPORTS IN REPUBLIC OF CROATIA, JANUARY – AUGUST 20081)

Seaport

Visits

Seaport

Visits

 

 

 

 

Cavtat

2

Ploče

18

Dubrovnik

446

Pula

43

Hvar

41

Rab

2

Krk

1

Rijeka

13

Komiža

2

Split

127

Korčula

93

Stari Grad

20

Lopud

1

Supetar

4

Mali Lošinj

3

Šibenik

22

Opatija

1

Trogir

5

Otok Mljet

41

Vis

3

Pag

1

Zadar

59

 

 

1)    Including all seaports visited by foreign vessels on a cruise during their sojourn in the Republic of Croatia and not only the seaports of the first entrance

 

 

NOTES ON METHODOLOGY

 

 

The data source is the regular survey 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 the port authority that is in charge of a port recorded to be a vessel’s first entrance into the Croatian territorial waters.

 

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

 

 

Symbols

 

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