In 2025, cruise passenger traffic in German ports has A new record has been reached with 1.51 million people embarked during the year on ocean-going cruise ships in one of the ports of call national ports, with an increase of +4.1% on the year previous. The German Federal Statistical Office Destatis has announced that, compared to the pre-Covid year 2019 which had recorded 1.33 million passengers, in 2025 the increase was by +13.5%.

Destatis recalled that the data on cruise traffic of the European statistical agency Eurostat, available for 2024, indicate that in that year 8.73 million people had cruised across the EU, an increase of +12.2% compared to 2023, and that in 2024, one in six passengers among those on a cruise ship in the EU had departed from Germany (16.6%). This puts Germany in third place among the countries of the European Union as a starting point for cruises. In 2024, most passengers had boarded a ocean cruise ship in Italy (28.4%), followed by Spain (22,3%). France was the starting point for 13.6% of the passengers and Greece for 8.3%.