About 290 ships and one goal: to exceed 700 thousand cruise passengers. These are the record forecasts for 2025 in the system ports of Sardinia. A season that, according to the calendars published today on the institutional page of the AdSP, sees further growth in the sector, compared to 2024, which has already exceeded the maximum peak of traffic, both for bookings of stops and for the number of cruise passengers expected in the ports of competence.
The year just ended totaled approximately 684,000 cruise passengers in transit, distributed as follows: over 540,000 at the port of Cagliari, approximately 95,000 at that of Olbia, over 37,000 at Golfo Aranci, approximately 5,700 at Porto Torres, 165 at Arbatax and approximately 5,000 at Oristano . The one just inaugurated – which is already running at full speed with MSC's winter schedule in the port of the Sardinian capital – includes 180 landings at Cagliari, 94 at that of Olbia, 4 at Golfo Aranci, 3 at Porto Torres and 5 at Arbatax . Data currently being consolidated, to which will be added, in the coming weeks, the bookings for Oristano and further additions to the calendar for the other system ports.
All the main cruise companies have been confirmed for 2024, for a range of offers that varies from the mass market to the extra-luxury segment . Among the main novelties of the year, the single landing, scheduled for June in Cagliari, of the Disney Fantasy, which returns to Sardinia after 8 years; the new stops of the luxurious Explora Journeys II (MSC group), always in the port of the capital, and the single stop of the Costa Fascinosa which, in October, will land in Porto Torres. As in previous seasons, with the Costa and MSC groups it will also be possible to depart from Cagliari and Olbia for a cruise in the Mediterranean. A market, dedicated to the Island, which has allowed over 18,000 Sardinians, and not only, to embark from the two ports for a holiday .
"As already announced several times, for this cruise season we have set ourselves a precise goal: to exceed the already excellent numbers achieved so far by the market in the ports of competence ", explains Massimo Deiana, president of the AdSP of the Sea of Sardinia. "There are all the premises, both in terms of the number of scheduled calls and the coefficient of ship occupancy, to break through the ceiling of 700,000 cruise passengers and leap forward in the top ten of the national ranking".
"In the coming weeks, however, we expect to receive other bookings", continues Deiana, "as well as continuing the market stimulation activity, in particular for ports with lower traffic, with the first strategic appointment at Seatrade Cruise Global, scheduled for April in Miami , during which we will meet the main shipping groups to consolidate and further develop the sector".
(Online Union)
