The Carnival Cruise Line's Fascination ship in Jacksonville offers cruises to Key West and the Bahamas.
More than 188,000 passengers embarked from the Port of Jacksonville in 2011, according to the 2011 annual report of the Jacksonville Aviation Authority.
Florida continued to be the center of cruise ship travel for 2011, according to a study by the Cruise Lines International Association.
More than 188,000 passengers embarked from the Port of Jacksonville in 2011, according to the 2011 annual report of the Jacksonville Aviation Authority. The Carnival Cruise Line's Fascination ship in Jacksonville offers cruises to Key West and the Bahamas.
Sixty percent of all passengers got on a ship at a Florida port. The overall number of passengers starting their cruise at a state port increased by 2.4 percent to 5.9 million, the study said. Passengers, crew and cruise lines combined to spend $6.7 billion in Florida, or about 35 percent of the industry's direct expenditures and a 5.6 percent increase from 2010.
The spending is responsible for 130,950 jobs paying $5.8 billion.
Port Canaveral saw an additional 194,000 embarkations in 2011, an increase of 15 percent, totaling about 1.5 million passengers, the study said. Tampa?s cruise traffic grew by 52,000 embarkations, or 13 percent, to 449,000 last year. The Port of Miami saw a 7.5 percent drop in passengers embarking on a cruise, but it had the most traffic with about 2 million people.
About 9.8 million cruise embarked on their cruises from U.S. ports in 2011, the study reported.
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