2016 archived information

Douglas Harbour  

December 2016 and Year end 2016

2016 has been a year which has seen an increase in passengers through Isle of Man harbours of a little under 1%. The solid 13.9% improvement in December significantly boosted the annual increase to just under 5,300 passengers by the close of 2016. A primary reason was the buoyant results of the cruise ship market, as well as solid scheduled services performances.

Overall passengers

• In December 2016, 2,635 more passengers and crew passed through Isle of Man harbours than in December 2015, a 13.92% increase.
• Scheduled service passengers constituted 97.7% of passengers passing through the harbours and were up by 13.1%, whilst non-scheduled numbers increased by two thirds.
• Heysham sailings were responsible for the most of the increase.
• Scheduled passenger vehicles were also up, by the same level, with a 13% increase.

Scheduled passengers and vehicles

• 21,067 scheduled service passengers passed through the Port in December, an increase of 2,438 over December 2015.
• The Heysham route accounted for 85% of the scheduled passengers and increased by 23.1% to 17,860 passengers.
• The Liverpool route declined by 784 passengers, or 21.9% to just under 2,800 passengers.
• Scheduled passenger vehicles were also up by 13% to 7,900 vehicles.

Non-Scheduled passengers

• December saw a 66.6% increase in non-scheduled passengers to nearly 500, maintaining a trend of substantial increases during the month for the last 3 years.
• Fishing and support vessels were responsible for the increase.