75,000+ Cruise Passengers Travel Through PortMiami in One Day (10 Ships)

The cruise business is exhibiting no indicators of slowing down as PortMiami simply introduced a brand new each day passenger document with 75,201passengers touring by the port in a single day.

Seeing Florida’s two busiest cruise ports duke it out is like watching two heavy-weight boxers going forwards and backwards.  Port Canaveral only recently took the title of “Busiest Cruise Port within the World” after seeing 8.6 million passenger actions in FY 2025.

However PortMiami is setting information of their very own.  Final Wednesday the cruise port posted on social media {that a} milestone had been reached:

“We’re breaking information at PortMiami! On Sunday, November 30, 2025, PortMiami set a brand new each day passenger document with 75,201 passengers touring by the Cruise Capital of the World ®.”

This single day document was damaged by over 7,000 passengers after the port’s document was final set in February of this 12 months.  Regardless that the February document of 68,000 passengers was additionally set when 10 ships had utilized the port, this time across the ships had been a bit bigger.

Ships in Port

Listed below are the ten ships that had been in PortMiami on the day over 75,000 passengers traveled by its terminals together with the double capability numbers for these ships:

Azamara Onward – 688
Carnival Celebration – 5,374
Carnival Horizon – 3,960
Carnival Dawn – 2,984
Movie star Past – 3,260
MSC Divina – 3,502
Norwegian Aqua – 3,571
Independence of the Seas – 3,634
Symphony of the Seas 5,518
Scarlet Woman – 2,770

The double capability for all these ships totals simply over 35,000 passengers.  And since this can be a turnaround day during which passengers will each disembark and new ones embark on their ships, you possibly can double this determine for about 70,000. 

So the place do the additional 5,000 passengers come from?

This exhibits one thing quite common within the cruise world: that ships virtually at all times sail at over 100% capability.  This implies each cabin is full, and a few may have greater than two passengers.  It’s not unusual for a ship to sail at 105% or 110% capability.

You’ll discover that the biggest cruise ship class on this planet (Icon of the Seas) was not even in port that day.  The Icon-class ship has a double capability of 5,610 and a max capability of seven,600.

One other Banner Yr for PortMiami

On prime of breaking its personal single-day document, PortMiami simply wrapped up its finest fiscal 12 months ever when it comes to passenger depend as properly.

The South Florida port welcomed a document 8,564,225 cruise passengers in FY 2025 which was 4% larger than 2024.

PortMiami has just lately added a number of ships as properly, together with two newbuilds, Oceania Allura and Virgin Voyages’ Sensible Woman, alongside Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth and Holland America’s Zuiderdam.

Waiting for 2026, PortMiami is scheduled to welcome extra new and first-time homeport ships. The subsequent arrivals embrace Windstar’s Star Seeker in January and NCL’s Norwegian Luna in March.