PortMiami closed FY2025 with a record 8,564,225 cruise passengers — then welcomed its ten-millionth guest in September 2026 with two weeks of the fiscal year still to spare. The Cruise Capital of the World is having the biggest year in its history.
('The only port ahead of Miami is its neighbour: Port Canaveral took the 2025 world title by just 37,822 passengers, 8.60 million to Miami’s 8.56. The duel is the industry’s best theatre — and FY2026’s ten-million milestone suggests Miami intends to answer.', 'The hardware explains the volumes: terminals rebuilt for the largest ships afloat, a November day that moved 75,201 passengers through ten simultaneous turnarounds, and a 2025-26 homeport class including Oceania Allura, Virgin’s Brilliant Lady, Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth, and NCL’s Norwegian Luna arriving March 2026.')
('The cruise towers share the port with a serious cargo operation: 1,115,058 TEUs in FY2025, up 2.35%, the eleventh straight year above a million. The dual engine — passengers plus boxes — makes PortMiami the county’s second great economic machine after the airport.', 'For travellers the port’s geography is the luxury: sail-aways pass the downtown skyline at arm’s length, and a pre-cruise night in Brickell turns embarkation morning into a ten-minute transfer.')
Stand on the MacArthur Causeway at five on a Sunday and watch the fleet leave — it is the one Miami spectacle that costs nothing and explains everything. If you sail, sail from here: the world’s deepest bench of ships, a city worth three nights before the gangway, and a port now running at ten million a year.
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