PortMiami retakes its title of ‘Cruise Capital of the World’

After briefly losing its crown to Port Canaveral, PortMiami again holds the title as world’s busiest cruise port, following a record-setting year of passenger traffic in fiscal 2023.

Between Oct. 1, 2022, and Sept. 30, 2023, the “Cruise Capital of the World” handled 7.3 million passengers, according to new figures from Miami-Dade County.

That’s a nearly 7% increase over the port’s previous record of 6.82 million passengers set in 2019.

And there’s more to come: Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas, the biggest cruise ship in the world, is just one of many that will start sailing from the port next year.

– Anne Geggis, Florida Politics