A record cruise month has driven Port Canaveral revenue to nearly $50 million in the first three months of the fiscal year.
December cruise revenue, which includes parking, hit $19.3 million, which is $8.7 million over budget. Those funds were driven by 95 ship calls with nearly 700,000 passengers. That includes two weekends around the holidays that saw near or over 100,000.
“We spent a lot of time and advanced coordinating to make sure we had as little disruption as possible,” said Port Canaveral CEO Capt. John Murray at the port commission meeting Wednesday. “We brought in support from [the sheriff’s office] with a lot of help keeping the traffic flowing and it was an all-out effort to plan it upfront. And for the most part it was it was quite successful.”
