2018 Cruise Shipping Season in Rostock-Warnemünde
The 2018 cruise shipping season on the Warnow River begins on April 8th with the arrival of Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines’ “Boudicca”. This year a total 205 visits by 43 different cruise ships are expected. Some 700,000 cruise ship passengers – an increase of 9% over last year – will board or disembark, 300,000 of them transit passengers.
On the 2018 timetable are 39 visits by very big passenger ships which are more than 300 m long. The biggest ship of the season will be the 145,655 GT “Norwegian Breakaway” belonging to the American shipping company NCL.
The most frequent visitors will be the “AIDAdiva” and the “AIDAmar” owned by the Rostock shipping company AIDA Cruises which plans 43 trips starting in Rostock. Nine cruise ships will make their first visits to the Warnow Estuary during 2018. Along with 53 visits to exchange passengers, Rostock will also register 57 partial turnabouts and 95 visits which are part of running cruises.
The cruise shipping highlight of the year 2018 will be the Rostock Cruise Festival from September 14th -16th, which six cruise ships will take part in. The season ends shortly before Christmas with three calls by Phoenix Seereisen’s “Albatros”.
