On August 17, the cruise ship "Ida MSC" arrived at Tianjin International Cruise Home Port, with more than 2,100 passengers arriving safely. In the evening, the ship set sail again, with nearly 2,200 tourists embarking on a six-day, five-night sea voyage. With the arrival of summer, the cruise tourism market at Tianjin Port continues to heat up.

According to statistics from the Dongjiang Border Inspection Station of the Tianjin General Station of Border Inspection, since the summer of 2026, the Tianjin Cruise Port has processed over 90,000 inbound and outbound passengers, totaling nearly 66,000, with both figures representing year-on-year increases of nearly 20%. Benefiting from favorable policies such as relaxed and optimized visa-free transit for foreigners and innovative measures like the China-South Korea "dual home port" initiative, the number of foreign passengers has increased by nearly 15% year-on-year, with South Korean passengers increasing by nearly 50%, and Russian passengers also seeing an increase. (Source: Xinhua News Agency)