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Article: CRUISE PASSENGER TRAFFIC INCREASED BY 3.5 PERCENT IN 2005
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- March 8, 2006
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The U.S. Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration issued the following press release:
North American cruise passenger traffic increased by 3.5 percent in 2005, with more than 9.7 million passengers carried on 4,463 cruises by the seventeen largest cruise lines, according to preliminary figures from the U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD). Growth figures were lower than in recent years, due in part to last year's hurricanes, but occupancy rates remained extremely high, reaching nearly 110 percent. (Note: A double stateroom with two passengers is considered 100 percent occupied. Since many double staterooms can accommodate three or four people, occupancy can be more than 100 ...