Asia, Africa & Middle East Cruise Ports

Asia, Africa & Middle East holds 314 cruise ports, 20% of the 1,572 we track. 40 of them are departure ports. The most visited cruise port in Asia, Africa & Middle East region is also its busiest departure port: Singapore, appearing in 1,632 upcoming itineraries.

Ports here are grouped into 7 sub-regions: Asia, Africa & Middle East is the largest with 305 ports, Transatlantic the smallest with 1. Its ports span 64 countries, most of them in Japan, Indonesia and Antarctica.

This grouping covers everything east and south of Europe, which is a wide brief: Japan and Southeast Asia, the Arabian Gulf, the Indian Ocean and the ports along both African coasts. Singapore, Yokohama, Hong Kong and Dubai carry most of the homeport traffic. The seasons here do not move together. Dubai and Abu Dhabi work the northern winter, Japan peaks around spring and again in autumn, and much of the African coastline appears on repositioning and world cruise segments rather than on dedicated sailings.