Hamburg Cruise Days, the world´s largest public cruise festival, will see 12 ships to attend the three day event in mid-September, Hamburg marketing GmbH that promotes the city, said in a statement.

The cruise ships to visit the port over the 11 to 13 September period are AIDAperla, AIDAsol, AIDAvita (AIDA Cruises), Amadea (Phoenix Reisen), Costa Mediterranea (Costa Cruises), Europa and Europa 2 (Hapag-Lloyd Cruises), Mein Schiff 4 (TUI Cruises), MSC Preziosa (MSC Cruises), World Explorer (Nicko Cruises) as well as the river cruise ships Frederic Chopin and Sans Souci (both of Plantours).

The port handled 223 cruise ships and more than 900,000 passengers last year, the city said.