Schedule of cruise ship calls at the Black Sea ports in October 2012

Photo by Vladimyr Trofimov, Odessa, specially for BSNews

Andrei KLIMENKO, BlackSeaNews

No less than 14 cruise ships will visit Black Sea ports in October 2012, compared to 5 in June, 11 in July, 7 in August, and 16 in September. They will visit at least 14 ports, besides Istanbul (in July they visited 12 ports, 11 in August, 13 in September and October).

1 mega-liner - QUEEN ELIZABETH – will visit the Black Sea for the first time.

In October, there will be 67 calls totally, not counting "river-sea" type vessels (in June there were 23 calls, in July 66, in August 29, and in September 68).

As always, we are making a reservation, since there, actually, does not exist any "official" summarized schedule of cruise ships visits to the Black Sea ports. We have had to combine various sources: websites of cruise companies, ports, tourist agencies, etc.

As always, we are not saying that all visits will be cruises. But the majority will be - that's for sure. What we have not found - will supplement in the course of events :). As a matter of fact, if our readers have reliable information to supplement or clarify – please, send it to us, we will be grateful :) - in September, our readers have strongly helped us with their supplements and clarifications.

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The data from websites: blacksea.sytes.net,
www.marinetraffic.com, www.shipspotting.com
were used by BSNews preparing matters for the
“Now at the Blackand Azov Seas ports” Project