The Seabourn Odyssey won for best cabins, Regent Seven Seas' Seven Seas Navigator took best shore excursions and Windstar's Wind Surf won for best for embarkation.
Embarkation controls - which meant people leaving the UK were seen by an immigration officer - were ended in 1994 for those travelling from ferry ports and small ports to a European Union destination.
Keith Best, chief executive of the Immigration Advisory Service, said the problems had been caused by the end of embarkation controls, in 1994 for people leaving the UK for the EU, and in 1998 for the rest of the world.
Meanwhile, syndicated columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak reported yesterday that Deputy National Security Adviser Sandy Berger angrily ordered the Pentagon to proceed to deploy the USS Harlan County to Haiti three weeks ago over the objections of senior military commanders who were recommending a postponement of its embarkation.