Cruise traffic soars at Port of Miami

Seems like a lot of people are picking up cheapcarribean vacation packages. More news confirm the increase in traffic from the port of Miami.

Excerpt from BIZJOURNALS:

Arrival of the Norwegian Epic helped the Port of Miami breaks its own record for cruise traffic in a fiscal year.

The port processed 4,145,053 passengers in the year ended Sept. 30, up from 4,110,100 for the prior year – an increase of 34,953.

“For the third year in a row, the Port of Miami has set a world mark for passenger traffic,” Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez said in a news release. “We are pleased that, even in a time of economic difficulty, cruise traffic continues to grow.”

The July-September quarter was up 10 percent, which coincided with the arrival of the Epic.

This month, the Port of Miami kicks off its 2010-2011 cruise season with two additional new ships: the Celebrity Eclipse, which arrives Nov. 13, and Oceania Cruises' Marina, which will be christened Feb. 5.

Costa Cruises will return to the port after an absence of several years when the Atlantica arrives in January.