dockings in 2018, with six double ship days.
Holland America, Celebrity Cruises, Norwegian Cruise Line and Royal Caribbean Cruise Line all use the Port of Seward as the northern end of their 7-day Alaska Glacier Cruises sailing to and from Vancouver B.C.
It is also used by several major cruise lines as a “turn around” port for their Gulf of Alaska Cruises.
While Whittier has been the other end route, Anchorage is starting to fluff her feathers to make her nest more attractive to cruise ship traffic.
Holland America Cruises has a special two-week trip where MS Amsterdam stops at nontraditional ports like Homer, Kodiak and Anchorage. While the number of visits is small, the prestige of the ships that make Anchorage a port of call is large.
City of Anchorage External Affairs Jim Jager: “We had ten scheduled visits in 2017, including the World. So the World stopped in Anchorage.”
The World is the largest luxury residential ship on the planet. The residents, from about 45 countries, live on board as the ship travels around exotic ports of call from Antarctica to Greenland, staying in most ports several days.
Anchorage isn’t targeting the cruise ship market in its port development.
City of Anchorage External Affairs Jim Jager: “Our cruise ship visitation seems to be pretty stable. I don’t anticipate that we will have a lot of growth just because of the other markets – Seward and Whittier -work for most of the cruise ship schedules much better than Anchorage.”
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