The crocieristico traffic in China is down



In the first semester of this year the 13 crocieristi ports of China, that is Shanghai, Tianjin, Xiamen, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Haikou, Qingdao, Dalian, Sanya, Lianyungang, Wenzhou, Weihai and Zhoushan, are scaled by 364 international cruise ships, with a decrease of the -27,2% regarding the first half of 2018, for a total traffic of 1.777.140 passengers (- 23.7%). It evidences 2019 China Cruise Development Report, the eleventh edition of the relationship that is realized by the Chinese governmental organization Lowers Cruise & Yacht Industry Association (CCYIA) with the Asian Cruise Maritime Academy of the Shanghai University and from China Cruise Terminals & Yacht Clubs Association (CCTYCA) and that it will be introduced officially in occasion of the fourteenth edition of China Cruise Shipping Conference & International Cruise Expo that will hold from the 15 on 17 November next ones to Guangzhou.

The precise relationship that in the first six months of the 2019 ports of call in the home port of these ships has been 322 (- 29.3%) for a number of passengers to the disembarkation and the boarding pairs to 1.680.930 units (- 24.7%). To these ports of call the 42 cruise ships join that they have called to Hong Kong (- 4.6%) for a contraction of the -2,3% of the traffic of the crocieristi in port.

In the 2018 ports of call of international cruise ships in the 13 Chinese crocieristici ports they have been 969, with a bending of the -18,0% on the year precedence, for a total traffic of 4.906.583 passengers (- 1.0%). The total of the ports of call in the home port has been of 889 units (- 19.0%) for 4.728.283 passengers (- 1.1%). Last year the ports of call to Hong Kong have been 80 (- 3.6%) for a decrease of the -2,3% of the traffic of the passengers.

The relationship explains that from the 2017 development of crocieristico tourism in China it is crossing a period of adaptation, with a decrease of the offered ability and a reduction of the number of cruises, and specifies that the main crocieristiche companies that operate in China are trying to adapt own strategies in order to adapt itself to the development of the market, with investments in new cruise ships specifically planned for the Chinese market. Also the ports are adapting to own structures and infrastructures and own services to the requirements of crocieristico tourism.