BC Cruise Ship Industry
Even though this is the BC and Alberta section I figured I would focus on BC's cruise ship industry since that's where I live.
I read today that Vancouver actually gets less cruise ship visits than Victoria even though it is equipped to handle more ships and has a bigger tourist industry than Victoria (I know, shocking!) but I couldn't find conclusive proof of the numbers because the 2012 Victoria Cruise Ship schedule at Ogden Point was down for some reason. Weird huh? |
You're talking about this article?
http://www.bcbusinessonline.ca/bcb/b...seship-dollars Data for Ogden Point here: http://victoriacruise.ca/page/cruise-schedule Do a quick copy and paste to Excel and you'll get 25 vessels carrying 475,000 passengers on 229 sailings. Vancouver data here: http://portmetrovancouver.com/en/abo...schedules.aspx Quote:
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Victoria is just a day visit/port-o-call mostly to satisfy the Jones Act* for the foreign-flagged ships that travel between two US ports such as Seattle/San Francisco and Ketchikan. *correction: it is actually the Passenger Vessel Services Act, Jones is applicable to freight. |
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From a 2010 Greater Victoria Harbour Authority news release:
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they only visit Victoria the same way they visit anchorage etc.
the ships are based out of and depart from Vancouver - what do they call that home port? port of call is just a port where they visit? Vancouver may get "less visitors" but the ships are based here and all the passengers have to come here to get to the ship and have to spend time here on their trip so they could be counted as visitors people don't board the ships in Victoria - they would have boarded the ship in Seattle |
Victoria will finally crack the 1000' barrier with the arrival of the Celebrity Solstice this summer. The ship measures 1,033 ft (314.86 m) which will be a new record for the capital city. The previous record holder was the 971' Norwegian Pearl.
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Cool. Maybe you can get a few pics.
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The other ships sail from Alaska stop in Victoria arriving in early afternoon, departing at night and then arriving in Seattle the next day. The Victoria stop is only a few hours. It meets the legal require that a foreign registered ship can not transport passengers from one us port to another. They even a couple of sailing the stop in Nanaimo. I am fan of Norwegian, and I know they do the grocery shopping in Florida, load all the groceries into cargo containers and then ship them to the home port that the ship is using that season. The only food they buy locally are veggies, fruit and dairy products. Home port is where they normally board passengers and provisions. The port of call is where they visit on the cruise. There are also a couple of weekends and the start and end of the cruise season when Vancouver gets a massive increase in traffic. This is because the ships that are going to home port in Seattle can not sail from a US port to another port so they have to operate a cruise to Vancouver. Then operate another 2 or 3 days cruise from Vancouver to Seattle. The repositioning cruises between Vancouver and Seattle tend to be quite cheap and make some interesting stops on Vancouver Island and Washington state. |
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Weird.
I must have been living in Onterrible at the time because i've never known a thousand footer to come to Victoria. Regardless, Celebrity Solstice sets a new record. I plan to get pics of it tele. :tup: |
Ask and ye shall receive, here are the first shots of the biggest cruise ship to ever visit Victoria, the $750,000,000, 1033 ft long, 122,000 ton Celebrity Solstice which carries 4350 passengers and crew. The weird thing is, it didn't seem any bigger than most of the other ships that dock here but it's at least 68 feet longer and weighs 6000 tons more than any other cruise ship to visit Victoria. :cheers:
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i1...psd21994dd.jpg http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i1...ps482e2945.jpg http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i1...ps68b8d1de.jpg http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i1...ps5d7104a9.jpg |
Woah! She's a beast.
Thanks Phil! That's quite the ship. |
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It doesn't look all that big until you see it from this angle: http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i1...ps68b8d1de.jpg |
Exactly what I thought.
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Doesn't seem like a lot of lifeboats..
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back from the dead...haha
a info-graphic for Vancouver's 2014 cruise season: http://i60.tinypic.com/w7k42b.jpg source - http://www.bcbusiness.ca/tourism-cul...etro-vancouver |
Victoria will receive its 10th cruise ship today. Yesterday was quite busy with 4 stops, including the Golden Princess (2600+ pax). A few have been repositioning cruises (to Seattle or Vancouver) from San Diego and Honolulu.
Looks like we have one more repositioning cruise, from Hilo, HI on May 15th - good thing the forecast calls for 24 that day - so we don't shock the passengers ha! |
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