In the period July-September of this year, the traffic cruise in Malta has set a new all-time record by being 348,000 passengers embarked on cruise ships that were arrive and depart from the port of Valletta, the number that represents an increase of +55.8% over the same period of 2022 and an increase by as many as 85 thousand units compared to the previous historical peak recorded in the second quarter of 2019.

In the third quarter of 2023 in Malta - where 108 cruise ships, 11 more than in the same period last year - a record number of cruise passengers of Italian nationality having been A total of 88 thousand of these passengers (+76.8%), a figure that surpassed by 34 thousand units the previous record set in third quarter of 2007.

In the first nine months of this year, there were 646,000 cruise passengers docked in Malta, with a growth of +67.2% on the corresponding period of 2022, of which 143 thousand of nationality Italian (+98.2%).