Modest traffic by sea in 2009.

Steady growth in public transport along the coastal line transport in the Adriatic was stopped in the year 2009, after a long period of modest results achieved in the boat, fast-ship and ferry lines, was announced today from the service line for the coastal marine traffic.

Precisely machined Agency data show that last year transported 11,576,795 passengers, or 2.6 percent less than in 2008 or 2,852,823 vehicles, which is 2.1 percent less. Although, it is realized in an extremely difficult economic year, the traffic is only slightly lower than the record of achievement in the years added to the Agency.

In the year 2009 busiest ferry lines were Split-Supetar, on wich was transported 1,545,633 passengers and 331,511 vehicles, Zadar-Preko with 1,615,439 passengers and 260,970 vehicles, sea traffic line Jablanac-Mišnjak where the turnover is about 1,093,628 passengers and 348,448 vehicles. On all three lines the traffic is for a few percent lower than in the year 2008.

Larger decline in ferry traffic was recorded in the Split area, especially on the lines of Old Town-Split-Ubli-Vela Luka-Split-Hvar and Vis-Split, and the ferry line Prizna-Žigljen.

The Agency say that the greatest reduction in traffic happened on the coastal ferry line Rijeka-Split-Hvar-Korcula-Dubrovnik, where the passengers and the vehicle was nearly 17 percent less than in the year 2008. It is, however, only a trend of continuous decline in the longest line of traffic in the Adriatic, because in the last four years the number of passengers and vehicles halved.

Rising trend of traffic is stopped and the state of the fast-ship lines. In total is transported about 1,044,657 passengers, or 4.1 percent less than 2008th year. Significant decrease is recorded on the line Pula-Unije-Mali Losinj-Zadar-Ilovik, where traffic is less by 15 percent then the on the line Ubli-Vela Luka-Split-Hvar, where the passengers were 12 percent less, while the lines Jelsa-Bol-Split Ubli-Vela Luka-Split-Hvar decrease was eight percent.

Data on passengers and vehicles on all lines in their entirety are available on the website Agency for the Coastal Line Traffic.

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