Maritime
Port of Kiel
PORT OF KIEL
tips Record
600,000
Cruise
Passengers
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Credits : Stephen Gergs
Schleswig-Holstein sea tourism enjoys growing popularity
K
iel, March 7th 2018: Sea cruises are
being rated ever higher on the tourism
scale in Schleswig-Holstein. This year,
more than 2 .1 million sea travellers are
expected in Kiel and 600.000 of them
– or 17 % more than last year - will be
cruise ship passengers. More than 1.5
million ferry ship passengers are also
expected. Dr Dirk Claus, Managing Director of the PORT
OF KIEL (SEEHAFEN KIEL GmbH & Co. KG) said: “Our
attendance at the ITB Travel Trade fair in Berlin underscores
the growing importance which the federal German state
of Schleswig-Holstein and its state capital Kiel attach
to sea tourism. Cruise shipping is the growth market in
northern Europe.” Every year passengers generate a
turnover in excess of € 50 million in Kiel alone. Already
well-known as a starting point for cruises to the big cities on