28 June 2022
With 130 calls planned in 2022, Dover is set to receive more cruise ships than in any previous year.
Of those, 73 are turnarounds and 11 are inaugurals.
Investment in berths
Christian Pryce, CCO, Port of Dover, said, ‘The Port of Dover welcomes over 25 individual cruise lines and counting, and with the investment made in our berths, we can accommodate up to three ships at once.’
Recent arrivals
Dover hosted both Carnival Cruise Line’s Carnival Pride and Royal Caribbean Cruises’ Jewel of the Seas on June 26. Carnival Pride had arrived in Dover for its inaugural call the previous week – Carnival’s first call at the port since 2013.
Other recent inaugural calls include Lindblad Expeditions’ National Geographic Explorer and Sea Cloud Cruises’ Sea Cloud Spirit.
Added Pryce, ‘Dover’s cruise terminal is welcoming hundreds of thousands of passengers to experience the wonders of Kent’s Heritage Coastline and our world-famous White Cliffs and helping them onward on adventures to multiple destinations around Europe, taking in the Norwegian Fjords, Spanish islands or rugged stretches of coastline on Scotland’s West Coast.’