Interesting cruise industry facts, tidbits & statistics

Passengers

More than 10,000,000 people take a cruise each year. About 80% will do it in North American waters.

Ports of call

There are over 2000 ports of call around our planet that cruise ships can visit.

Most popular starting ports

About half of all passengers on major world cruise lines begin their trips in one of these three Florida ports: Miami, Port Canaveral, and Fort Lauderdale.

Most popular destination

More people cruise to the Caribbean than any other destination in the world.

Non-destination

For some cruisers, the ship itself is the primary destination, not the ports of call.

Cruise length

The average length of a cruise is slightly over seven days.

Cruise ship population

There are more than 300 sea-going cruise ships in the world. They can collectitvely accommodate over 300,000 passengers per day.

Individual capacities

The latest super-sized ships carry over 4 thousand people (counting passengers and crew). They would dwarf the Titanic and are as tall as a sixteen-story building.

Construction cost

Those gargantuan ships can cost a cruise line a half-billion American dollars before the first passenger boards.

The big three

Today, 3 cruise line groups (Carnival, Royal Caribbean and Star/NCL) control roughly two-thirds of world’s cruise passenger capacity.

Travel agents

Almost 90% of cruise tickets are sold through travel agents.

9 Fun Facts about Cruise Lines

 9 Fun Facts about Cruise Lines

9 Fun Facts about Cruise Lines:

1. An average cruise ship could have six huge diesel engines producing one hundred four horse powers and guzzling three thousand gallons of fuel per hour.

 

2. Cruise ships on modern design can actually cost about six hundred sixty million dollars.

 

3. There are nine brand new ships that entered service around the North America coast line every year.

 

4. A modern luxury cruise vessel is able to be built, fitted out and tested in one-and-a half years though it usually takes about three years.

 

5. On the average, there are one hundred five thousand meals are prepared every single week onboard a cruise ship. The meals include twenty thousand pounds of beef, twelve thousand pounds of chicken and twenty eight thousands of eggs.

 

6. There are about one thousand crew members on board the average ships to cater to passengers every need. These people are experts from engineers to waiter to navigators.

 

7. A modern cruise liner are able to hold three thousand passengers aboard in an absolute luxury.

 

8. Caribbean is the most popular cruising destination in the world with almost every cruise line operator.

 

9. The cruise line industry produces two thousand five hundred fifty five gallons of gray water and thirty thousand gallons of black water every single day. Gray waters are wastes from sinks, showers and bath while black waters is what you flush down the toilets.