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Port of Barcelona expects 1.8 million passengers from May to October

Barcelona is the first cruise port in Europe and the Mediterranean, and is fourth in the world, after the big three Florida ports...

The Barcelona cruise port is expected to reach 1.833 million passengers between May and October this year and will receive around 540 cruise ships.

The maximum flow of cruise ships tourists will occur in October, while July and August are less busy months.

 In October 13 port will receive 26 200 passengers from seven cruise ships, and on October 20, 24 200 cruise travelers.

Other peak days are September 30, with 22 300 from seven cruise ships,  and on  October 27, 20 000 visitors from six cruise ships.

Port facilities reach the record cruisers and cruise ships the first weekend of May this year, when they received 14 cruise ships with 41,600 more passengers, a figure never before achieved in a single weekend.

In 2011 the port of Barcelona received 881 cruise ships and 2.6 million cruise passengers.

 The purpose of this analysis is to consolidate these figures heading into this year, but so far have lost the effect of the cruise ship Costa Concordia.

Due to Costa Concordia disaster in January the ship itinerary was replaced in March with Costa NeoRomantica, smaller ship that partly compensated the cruise passenger numbers.

Barcelona is the first cruise port in Europe and the Mediterranean, and is fourth in the world, after the big three Florida ports: Miami, Port Canaveral and Port Everglades.