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PASSENGER
TRANSPORTATION
Marine Transportation
Cruise Ship Traffic
Cruise business in the Port of Vancouver recorded its 17th consecutive
year of growth in 1999, with a passenger count of nearly 948,000.
It was also the best year ever for the Port of Halifax, with
the number of passengers visiting the port reaching nearly 108,000,
more than double the number for 1998. Most port visitors arrive
or depart on cruises between New York and Halifax or on five-day
trips from New York to Halifax and Saint John.
Traffic was up overall for the Atlantic ports. The Cruiseship
Authority of Newfoundland and Labrador reported a record year
for cruise ship visits, with vessels calling at 17 different ports
and making a total of 60 calls, bringing over 25,000 passengers.
With the rules for vessels transiting under the Confederation
Bridge clarified, more international cruise vessels called in
Prince Edward Island: 16 ships and 7,030 passengers visited Charlottetown
in 1999, up from only 2,115 passengers in 1998.
The boom in Atlantic cruise business can be explained in part
by the collective marketing efforts of both the Atlantic Canada
Cruise Association (formed in 1998) and the New Atlantic Frontier,
a group of about 30 ports in a loop from New York to Montreal
that have pooled their marketing resources.
Montreal and Quebec City recorded fewer cruise visitors in 1999.
The grounding of the Norwegian Sky in the St. Lawrence and
its subsequent removal from service for repairs reduced the
number of calls it was able to make in Quebec City this year.
Table 13-5 shows the cruise ship traffic at major Canadian
ports from 1990 to 1999.
No federal department keeps formal records of the number of
passenger trips in domestic cruise operations. Yet the Canadian
Passenger Vessel Association, which represents many of the larger
operators, in its annual survey for 1998, accounted for 5.77 million
passengers during the year on 115 vessels ranging from 12 gross registered
tonnes (GRT) to over 400 GRT.
Ferry Traffic
Traffic figures for 1999 for all members of the Canadian Ferry
Operators Association (CFOA) are not yet available. The relative
size of their operations is, however, evident in the traffic figures
for 1998.
British Columbia Ferry Corporation, by far the largest operator
in Canada, carried approximately 21.4 million passengers and 7.8
million vehicles during the 1998/99 fiscal year. Ferry services
operated by British Columbia's Ministry of Transportation and
Highways carried a further 5.2 million passengers and 2.9 million
vehicles.
La Société des traversiers du Québec carried
5.5 million passengers and 1.9 million vehicles, while Marine
Atlantic reported carrying 444,425 passengers, 138,850 passenger
vehicles and 71,311 trucks in 1998. (The 1998 figures represent
the first year of Marine Atlantic's reduced mandate and are only
for the services linking Newfoundland to the mainland of Canada.)
Preliminary figures for 1998 indicate that the remaining CFOA
members accounted for approximately 4.8 million passengers and
2.1 million vehicle crossings.
Marine Transportation
- Appendix 13-1 Status of Transborder
Scheduled Air Services by Airline Domicile, 1991 - 1998
Appendix 13-2 Status of Transborder Air
Services as of December 31, 1999
Appendix 13-3 International Air Services
as of December 31, 1999 (excluding Canada-US Transborder
Air Services)
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