Shipping traffic in Cyprus fell in 2008 according to the latest statistics from the annual Transport Statistics report.  During 2008, 4,052 vessels arrived at the various ports of Republic of Cyprus controlled southern part of Cyprus compared with 4,279 in 2007.

Of these, 2,971 or 73.3% arrived at Limassol port, 775 or 19.1% called
at Larnaca and 306 ships arrived at other ports.  On a more positive
note, the number of ships on the Cyprus Register showed an increase. 
At the end of 2008, there were 1,869 ships on the register with a total
of 21,626,432 gross registered tonnage, compared with 1,789 ships in
2007, with a total of 20,196,441 gross registered tonnage.  Civil
aircraft landings during 2008 increased to 31,755 compared with 31,028
in 2007. Passenger arrivals through airports increased to 3,625,851 in
2008, compared with 3,512,672 in 2007.  The report shows that the
number of newly motor vehicles registered in 2008 increased by 5.2% to
67,722. Private saloon cars increased by 2.0% to 49,100.
At the end of 2008 vehicles of all types and categories on the register
of the Land Transport Department totalled 720,749 in a population of
789,300, compared with 688,532 at the end of 2007.  There was an
improvement in Cyprus’s poor road accident record. The number of road
accidents reported to the police decreased to 2,131 in 2008 compared
with 2,302 in 2007.  There was 82 deaths by road accidents and 1,963
injured in 2008, as against 89 dead and 2,155 injured in 2007.
By value the latest data show that the broad transport, storage and
communication sector increased rose by 16.9% in 2007 in gross output,
current price terms and amounted to CYP 1,275.9 mln (EUR 2,180.0 mln),
compared with CYP 1,091.6 mln (EUR 1,865.1 mln) in 2006.  In value
added terms, the sector increased to CYP 705.4 mln (EUR 1,205.2 mln) in
2007, from CYP 615.0 mn (EUR 1,050.8 mln) in 2006 and its share of GDP
at current market prices was 7.4%.

Source: Financial Mirror

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