Cruise capacity in the Chinese market is set to grow by more than 220 percent over the next five years, from 1.3 million passengers in 2015 to 4.1 million passengers by 2020, according to the 2016-2017 Cruise Industry News Annual Report.
The growth pace is based on known newbuildings going to China and known ship transfers from the North American and European markets.
On an annualized basis, the growth pace will be 75 percent this year, 26 percent in 2017, 20 percent in 2018, 9.7 percent in 2019 and 10.0 percent in 2020.
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