Almost a million Balearic cruise passengers up until July

Spain received 4.29 million cruise ship passengers in the first seven months of the year, an increase of over 11%. This figure, released by the State Ports, supports a previous forecast of Spain achieving over eight million passengers for the whole year, which will break the record set in 2011.

96% of this cruise traffic comes into the ports of the Balearics, Barcelona and Valencia in the Mediterranean, and of the bay of Cadiz, Vigo, A Coruña and the Canaries.

Barcelona is one of the top five ports in the world, ahead of Rome and Venice. Up until July, it had received 1.28 million cruise passengers, a 7.24% increase.