2022 Number of cruiser passengers

During 2022, there were a total of 43,999 passengers visiting Greenland aboard cruise ships. The result show 5 per cent decrease as compared to the cruiser passengers from 2019.

 

Figure 1. Number of cruise passengers by month, 2019 and 2022

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123 cruises have been completed in 2022 with 376 calls.

 

Most cruise frequent were with ships with a passenger capacity of 0-250.

However, it was cruises with a passenger capacity of over 1,200 that contributed the higher number of passengers with a total of 22,953 passengers.

 

 

Table 1. Number of cruises by passenger capacity and month, 2022

	Total	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May	Jun.	Jul.	Aug.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.
Total ....	123	-	-	-	1	2	5	29	51	35	-	-	-
0-250 ...	69	-	-	-	1	1	3	15	25	24	-	-	-
251-500 ..	25	-	-	-	-	1	-	4	12	8	-	-	-
501-1,200	14	-	-	-	-	-	1	5	6	2	-	-	-
1,200+ ..	15	-	-	-	-	-	1	5	8	1	-	-	-

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Table 2. Number of cruises by capacity and total passenger, 2019 and 2022

	2019		2022
	Passangers	Cruises	Passangers	Cruises
Total ............	46,633	125	43,999	123
0-250 ...........	7,462	69	7,925	69
251-500 ..........	6,239	24	5,372	25
501-1200 .........	10,649	19	7,749	14
1200+ ...........	22,283	13	22,953	15

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The visitor that arrived at the harbours in Greenland summed up to a total of 112,273 visits, which is an 8 % decrease as compared to 2019.

 

 

Table 3. Number of cruise passengers by harbour in 2019 and 2022.

	2019	2022	Difference 2019-2022
Total	122.314	112.273	-10.041
Aasiaat ...................................	536	193	-343
Ilulissat ...................................	14.762	14.730	-32
Ittoqqortoormiit .............................	2.860	3.255	395
Kangerlussuaq .............................	7.953	7.309	-644
Maniitsoq .................................	1.736	1.925	189
Nanortalik .................................	11.666	14.486	2.820
Narsaq ...................................	2.705	2.190	-515
Narsarsuaq ................................	2.968	1.891	-1.077
Nuuk ....................................	18.172	15.560	-2.612
Paamiut ..................................	5.853	1.547	-4.306
Qaqortoq .................................	28.214	27.732	-482
Qasigiannguit ..............................	529	0	-529
Qassiarsuk* ...............................	630	104	-526
Qeqertarsuaq ..............................	4.895	3.154	-1.741
Qaanaaq .................................	795	1.082	287
Sisimiut ..................................	11.629	12.575	946
Tasiilaq ..................................	3.099	877	-2.222
Upernavik .................................	595	706	111
Uummannaq ...............................	2.717	2.805	88

Note: This statistic bases on the Tax Office register.

Note: Calls in Qassiarsuk are tax-free, which is why the Tax Office does not receive reports from all ships calling at the port.

See the figures in https://bank.stat.gl/TUEKRH

 

You are most likely to meet passengers from USA, Germany and United Kingdom off the cruise ship.

 

Figure 2. Cruise passengers by nationality, 2019 and 2022.

Note: Cruises and passengers were accounted for the Tax Office registry.

See the figures in https://bank.stat.gl/TUEKRL

 

Remarks

The basis of the cruise statistics are the reports from the Tax Office. For 22 calls have not been received passenger lists reports and therefore those were estimated.

 

On June 2015, there was a reorganization of the taxes for cruises, where the cruises pay taxes based on number of passenger before June 2015, and after that, the taxes were paid base on the gross tonnage of the ship.

 

Since the reorganization, the Tax Office has experienced problems at receive some of the call reports from the port authorities, and therefore no port fee has been registered for those calls.