Tagged: Cruise Norway

Cruise Norway is expecting a record year with more than 3 million individual passenger visits to its ports, up 13.5 percent from last year. It is a new record, beating the previous all time high from 2013, said Sandra Diana Bratland, managing director. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

In northern Norway, the port of Sortland in Vesteraalen scored big with a whale safari for passengers aboard the Costa neoRomantica this summer. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

This year, Arendal, which is in southern Norway, will have seven calls, up from two last year, and so far five calls are booked for 2016, including Crystal, Fred. Olsen and Saga, while it is expecting as many as 12 to 14 calls for 2017. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

“We are expecting this year’s cruise season to be on par with last year,” said Synnøve Johnsen, cruise coordinator of Port of Alesund, “although a few less calls and passengers. We had a steady increase in cruise traffic up to 2014.”

With the world’s second longest coast line stretching more than 100,000 kilometers, Norway offers unique possibilities for sailing schedules with various lengths and content year-round, according to Sandra Diana Bratland, managing director of Cruise Norway. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

Haugesund, Norway, has announced 18 cruise calls for the upcoming season, bringing some 23,000 passengers to the destination, up from 8,000 last yer and 7,500 in 2013. (cruiseindustrynews.com)