Cozumel sets port record

The number of cruise ships arriving at Cozumel — Mexico’s largest Caribbean island — increased 8 percent last year while the number of passengers carried by these ships was up by 20 percent. This compares favorably with the 37 percent overall decline in cruise ship traffic. The decline was registered along the Pacific coast, where criminal violence was blamed, although very rarely are cruise ship passengers victims. There is another factor: cruise ships calling at Cozumel visit several countries while those sailing along the Mexican Pacific usually stop only at Mexican ports after departing from Los Angeles, San Diego or La Paz.

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Jimm Budd

Reporting From Mexico City

Member of the Society of American Travel Writers