The Port System Authority of the Sea of Sardinia has announced that 2024 will be the record-breaking season for the cruise market in Sardinian ports, with over 260 ships expected for a total of at least 650 thousand passengers compared to about 438 thousand cruise passengers in 2023, of which 344 thousand in the port of Cagliari, approximately 80,000 in Olbia, more than 2,000 in Golfo Aranci, as well as a thousand in Porto Torres, almost 150 in Arbatax and over 7 thousand in Oristano, with a doubling of volumes compared to 2022.

With regard to the ships currently expected in 2024, MSC Cruises plans 177 landings in Cagliari (75 more than to 2023), 75 on that of Olbia (29 more), five on Golfo Aranci, three on Porto Torres and two on Oristano (same landings as the last year). Confirmations on Cagliari also for the Carnival group that returns with the weekly Costa Smeralda calls of Costa Cruises, with Aida and Seabourn. Present in the capital Norwegian Cruise Line, Marella, TUI Cruises and others shipowners' groups.

As far as Olbia is concerned, on the other hand, the season is enriched of Costa Cruises' ports of call which, with the Pacifica, adds to the MSC Orchestra's landings on the calendar, of the Marella Explorer and other luxury brands such as Regent, Azamara, and Silver Sea.

Confirmed, in this first edition of the cruise calendar, the companies planned in Porto Torres (Renaissance of Compagnie de São Paulo) Française de Croisières and Island Sky by Noble Caledonia) and Golfo Aranci (Ovation and Sojourn by Seabourn).

As far as Oristano is concerned, on the other hand, the stopovers on the calendar are those of Marella Cruise Line with the Marella Explorer and Vasco da Gama of the German luxury company Nicko Cruises which, over the course of the season, will also touch Cagliari and Olbia.