Cruise ships in Rotterdam: Data description and first analyses. Over the past 10 years, Rotterdam has experienced an unprecedented growth in the number of cruise ships that call in its city center. This short paper provides detailed information about the number of calls, the period in which ships were built, and their Environmental Ship Index.

My website www.havenstad.org debunks various myths about the cruise ships and their economic importance for the local economy, it shows the traffic problems that cruise calls cause in a newly developed part of Rotterdam, and discusses the poor fit of the city's cruise policy with various other policies.