2024-04-21 17:27:05
The number of cruise ships and passengers arriving in Klaipėda changes every year.
For example, in 2023, 42 thousand cruise passengers visited the port city, 41 liners arrived, and in 2022, 61 ships visited, almost 50 thousand tourists arrived.
However, there is also good news for Klaipėda, which representatives of the Klaipėda Tourism Information Center and Klaipėda Port heard at the Seatrade Global cruise business exhibition held in Miami on April 8-11.
“Princess Cruise Lines has confirmed that in 2026 it will come to Klaipėda 7 times, although it usually came only 1 time per season.
After 5 years, the ships of SAGA cruise lines are returning to Klaipėda. On August 8, a special ship will arrive – a world cruise. The whole world and Klaipėda are on the route of this ship.
Windstar has announced the construction of 2 new ships that will operate in the Baltic region”, the Klaipėda Tourism Information Center announces.
At the exhibition held in Miami, it was celebrated that cruise passengers are getting younger, Baltic cruises are selling well, and cruise lines are announcing a record year.
We already wrote in “Vakaru Ekspres” that the cruise season in Klaipėda will start on April 23. On that day, Ponant Cruise Lines’ Le Bellot will make its first port call. The theme of this cruise is music.
The entire schedule of cruise ships that plan to arrive in Klaipėda can be followed here.
Klaipėda residents and city guests like to visit the arriving cruise ships, which are often impressive in size and decorate the quayside of the Cruise Ship Terminal.
The largest liner that arrived in Klaipėda in 2023 was “Mein Schiff 6”, whose length is 296 meters.
Last year, Klaipėda was visited for the first time by one of the most impressive – the sailing ship “Sea Cloud Spirit”.
Built just a couple of years ago, the three-masted ship is currently one of the largest sailing ships in the world.
2024-04-21 17:27:05