Croatian ports record a significant decline in passenger numbers

289.500 passengers passed through Zadar ferry port, a 54.9% decrease from last year, while Preko ferry terminal managed 269.800 passengers, an annual decrease of 44.2%.

In the second trimester of 2020, Croatian ferry ports record a significant traffic decline of both ferries and passengers. More precisely, a decrease of 54% in ferry traffic and 68% in passenger traffic compared to last year. Cargo traffic saw an increase of 7%, as per Croatian Bureau of Statistics. 

They concluded that COVID-19 pandemic directly affected the decline in both domestic and international traffic in the country’s ferry ports. Namely, in the second trimester, there were 45.071 ferries / catamarans arriving at Croatian ports, a decrease of 54.3%. With a total of 2.99 million passengers, ports saw an decrease of 68% as compared to the same period of last year. Those are the lowest passenger numbers of the second trimester, in the past 10 years.

All ferry ports recorded significant annual traffic decline. For instance, in the Split ferry port, which managed the most passenger traffic, there were only 343.800 passengers recorded, a decrease of 75.4 %.
Zadar ferry port serviced 289.500 passengers, 54% less than last year, while Preko terminal serviced 269.000 passengers, a decline of 44.2%. Huge decline of 90.2% was recorded by Dubrovnik ferry port. From April to June of 2020, 94.900 passengers passed through the port. In the same period last year, that number was almost 972.000.

From January to June 2020, there were a total of 94.640 ferry / catamaran arrivals, a decrease of 36.7%. In the same period, a total of 5.56 million passengers were recorded, a decline of 54.7%. As for the cargo traffic in the same period, a decrease of 1.6% was recorded, giving a total of 9.94 million tons of freight.

Source: eZadar