Table 4-8: Top 15 Cruise Ship Ports by Port of Departure: 2004 and 2005
Table 4-8: Top 15 Cruise Ship Ports by Port of Departure: 2004 and 2005
| Port | Rank in 2005 | 2004 | 2005 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Passengers (thousands) | Cruises | Passengers (thousands) | Cruises | ||
| Miami, FL | 1 | 1,683 | 641 | 1,771 | 656 |
| Port Canaveral, FL | 2 | 1,230 | 466 | 1,234 | 343 |
| Fort Lauderdale, FL | 3 | 1,237 | 637 | 1,199 | 618 |
| Los Angeles, CA | 4 | 434 | 193 | 615 | 176 |
| San Juan, PR | 5 | 677 | 322 | 581 | 264 |
| Galveston, TX | 6 | 433 | 208 | 531 | 222 |
| Tampa, FL | 7 | 399 | 198 | 408 | 192 |
| New York, NY | 8 | (R) 548 | (R) 253 | 370 | 171 |
| Long Beach, CA | 9 | 401 | 166 | 363 | 204 |
| Seattle, WA | 10 | 291 | 135 | 337 | 151 |
| New Orleans, LA | 11 | 396 | 178 | 308 | 121 |
| Honolulu, HI | 12 | (R) 170 | 90 | 236 | 121 |
| San Diego, CA | 13 | 173 | 104 | 234 | 133 |
| Cape Liberty, NJ | 14 | U | U | 147 | 59 |
| Jacksonville, FL | 15 | 114 | 65 | 137 | 83 |
| All other ports | (R) 571 | (R) 409 | 728 | 479 | |
| Top 15, total1 | (R) 8,291 | (R) 3,713 | 8,470 | 3,514 | |
| Total | (R) 8,861 | (R) 4,122 | 9,198 | 3,993 | |
| Top 15 as percent of total1 | (R) 93.6 | (R) 90.1 | 92.1 | 88.0 | |
1Data for 2004 are based on the top 15 cruise ship ports in that year.
KEY: R = revised; U = data are not available.
NOTES: Cruise passenger statistics for this table are based on the passenger data provided by seventeen major cruise lines that offered North American cruises with a U.S. port of call in 2005.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration, Cruise Passenger Statistics, available at http://www.marad.dot.gov/Marad_Statistics/index.html as of Sept. 12, 2006.