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Transcript: CRUISE PASSENGER TRAFFIC SHOWS CONTINUED GROWTH
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- Regulatory Intelligence Data
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- January 5, 2006
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Regulatory Intelligence Data
01-05-2006
For the first nine months of 2005, cruise passenger traffic in North America
was 4.5 percent above the same period in 2004, despite the impact of hurricanes
on Gulf port cruises, according to third quarter statistics released by
the U.S. Maritime Administration. The data, part of the MARAD's regularly-issued
cruise passenger series, also show that cruise passenger traffic is up
18.5 percent over the same period in 2003, the year that MARAD first began
publishing these statistics. Moreover, 15 out of the 17 cruise lines analyzed
in the series showed an increase in traffic in 2005. Deputy Maritime Administrator
John Jamian attributed the ...