This is the result of a constant growth of the country; no matter how weird this may sound to everyone given the financial trouble most European countries have been facing the last years, passenger numbers in Germany keep on rising.
On the other hand, UK, currently Europe's biggest cruise market, showed no growth last year from a passengers point of view.
As Michael Ungerer, president of the Cruise Lines International Association's newly established branch in the country, said in a telephone interview "Germany will be Europe’s biggest market in the foreseeable future."
Ungerer is also chief executive of AIDA Cruises, another of Miami-based Carnival’s European brands.
