by Przemysław Myszka

Traditionally, at the beginning of the year Cruise Baltic, a Copenhagen-based organisation gathering several dozen cruise ports from across the Baltic Sea region (plus three harbours located on Norway's southeast coast), published its latest market findings.

The statistics confirmed our earlier stories about individual ports' new all-time highs, which, in turn, strongly suggested that the entire region will end 2017 with a hefty increase.

As such, the Baltic and the southeast Norwegian cruise market rose last year by 16.5% year-on-year to a total of over 5.14m travellers.

Moreover, estimates indicate that 2018 will end with yet another record in the number of cruise passengers served.

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