Tagged: Victoria (BC)

The Greater Victoria Harbour Authority will wrap up the 2023 cruise season on October 29 after welcoming 326 ships and 970,000 cruise visitors between April and October. (more…)

The Greater Victoria Harbour Authority will begin the search for a new CEO after Ian Robertson announced his plan to retire in early 2023. (more…)

The not-for-profit Greater Victoria Harbour Authority (GVHA) has released the draft schedule for the 2022 cruise ship season in Victoria with the first ship in a Canadian port in two years arriving on April 6, 2022. (more…)

Cruise ships will return to Victoria. With them will return hundreds of thousands of passengers and crew per year. (timescolonist.com)

A national coalition of tourism and business groups continues to lobby the federal government for a U.S. border reopening plan, for the sake of cruise tourism and the thousands of B.C. jobs that rely on it. (saanichnews.com)

Greater Victoria Harbour Authority (GVHA) CEO Ian Robertson is advocating to Transport Canada to announce plans to rescind the order suspending cruise in Canada that is currently in effect until Feb. 28, 2022. (more…)

Following its meeting on Friday, Dec. 4, 2020, the Greater Victoria Harbour Authority (GVHA) Board of Directors has confirmed that the organization will proceed with the next stage of the shore power project for the Victoria Cruise Terminal at The Breakwater District. (more…)

The not-for-profit Greater Victoria Harbour Authority (GVHA) has achieved a ranking of 3.7 out of 5 by Green Marine, an increase over their previous 2018 score of 3.3 and one that places the deep-water port among the most environmentally sustainable ports in North America. (more…)

The 58-metre extension to the Pier B mooring dolphin at the Victoria Cruise Terminal has received final review from the engineering team, signalling completion of one of the of the largest infrastructure projects ever undertaken by the Greater Victoria Harbour Authority (GVHA). (more…)

The not-for-profit Greater Victoria Harbour Authority (GVHA) concluded the 2019 cruise ship season on Friday, Oct. 18 having welcomed 709,042 passengers and 294,956 crew on a total of 257 ship calls. (more…)

The City of Victoria passed a motion Thursday that would regulate the number of cruise ships entering the harbour due to environmental concerns.The motion makes four recommendations, including a request the Greater Victoria Harbour Authority halt any increase in ship visits until the city is satisfied efforts to address emissions and waste issues have been addressed. (cbc.ca)

Victoria’s mayor and two councillors have tabled a motion asking for among other things a limit on cruise ships entering the city until a plan can be found to limit their emissions and waste. Lisa Helps and councillors Marianne Alto and Ben Isitt tabled the motion which will go before council on Oct. 17. (cbc.ca)

For the first time, cruise ship passengers will be able to start and end their cruise in Victoria, B.C. Even though Victoria’s Ogden Point is a busy port for cruise ships all summer long, Vancouver Island residents who want to take a cruise cannot embark from here. Instead, they have to travel to either the Vancouver or Seattle ports to join the cruise. (cbc.ca)

The Greater Victoria Harbour Authority has reached a new milestone. On Friday, the authority welcomed its eight millionth passenger, Meghan Lorenzon, to the Victoria Cruise Ship Terminal at Ogden Point. Lorenzon, who is from Davenport, Fla. was on the Norwegian Joy with her husband, Brent Petkus, for their honeymoon. (cheknews.ca)

The 2019 cruise ship season begins on Tuesday, April 16 with the arrival of the Celebrity Eclipse, the first of more than 260 ship calls scheduled to visit Victoria, BC this year. (more…)

Throughout 2018, the not-for-profit Greater Victoria Harbour Authority (GVHA) saw increased resident and visitor utilization of its properties. (more…)

Investing in trade and transportation infrastructure is critical to boosting tourism, helping businesses move their goods to domestic and international markets efficiently, and building a strong economic future for all Canadians. (more…)

The final cruise ship call at the Ogden Point Cruise Terminal in Victoria, BC will take place on Sunday, Oct. 14, 2018, capping a season that witnessed a series of milestones and records for the Greater Victoria Harbour Authority (GVHA). (more…)

Last year turned out to be a record year for Victoria with 239 cruise ship calls and just short of 600,000 passengers, which it expects to exceed this year with more than 250 calls, including the 4,200-passenger Norwegian Bliss, pushing the passenger count above 600,000, according to Ian Robertson, CEO of the Greater Victoria Harbour Authority. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

Victoria welcomed 239 cruise ship calls in 2017, the largest number ever recorded in the city. In a season that stretches from April through October, close to 600,000 passengers and more than 239,000 crew visited the city on cruise ships. (more…)

When they visit Victoria in 2018, cruise passengers will be boarding a fleet of greener buses. A new partnership between The Wilson’s Group and CVS Tours will bring new, quieter buses with lower emissions to the Greater Victoria Harbour Authority’s Ogden Point cruise terminal. (more…)

Victoria’s Ogden Point hit a huge milestone Thursday as the port welcomed its seven-millionth cruise ship passenger to date. The city has been welcoming cruise ships for nearly 40 years, with just 20,000 passengers arriving in 1978. (vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca)

When the Star Princess arrives at the Ogden Point cruise ship terminal at noon today (April 10, 2017), she will kick off a cruise season in Victoria that will bring more than 550,000 visitors to the city. (more…)

“We will continue to grow this year, with more ships, more passengers and more crew,” said Ian Robertson, CEO of the Greater Victoria Harbour Authority (GVHA). When interviewed by Cruise Industry News in November, he said the schedule was still settling, but he expected a strong year with an estimated 240 calls, up from 224 last year. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

The Greater Victoria Harbour Authority (GVHA) announced it had welcomed more than 550,000 passengers and 212,000 crew from 224 ships to Ogden Point, Canada’s busiest cruise ship port of call, during the 2016 cruise season. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

The Greater Victoria Harbour Authority (GVHA) has unveiled North America’s first purpose built, fully electric double-decker bus. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

Sulphur-dioxide emission issues may be dwindling in James Bay, but it’s by no means clear sailing for the city’s cruise ship industry, according to the James Bay Neighbourhood Association. (timescolonist.com)

The federal government is being called on to fix a visa issue that led to about 11,000 cruise ship tourists being prevented from sailing to Victoria last year. (timescolonist.com)

“It is an exciting day. It shows that Victoria is very much a popular port, that the cruise lines like coming here, and it also shows that there is demand for Victoria,” Ian Robertson, chief executive officer of the Greater Victoria Harbour Authority, said Monday. (timescolonist.com)