Cruises
All aspects of port business associated with the cruise ship industry. This includes announcements of home porting, contracts to build and operate cruise terminals and traffic figures for cruise ship and passenger per port/country. Leading cruise terminal operators include Global Ports Holding. Cruise ship operators in the Mediterranean include MSC Cruises, Costa Cruises and Carnival Cruises.
Turkish cruise ship traffic starts slow recovery
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) August 13, 2021 – Following an absence of cruise traffic in January-May this year, Turkish cruise ship traffic started a...
Technical Roundtable for Venice starts work
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) August 6, 2021 – The Minister of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility Enrico Giovannini has hosted the first meeting of the...
MSC Cruises and Costa Crociere form new company to operate Sicilian passenger terminals
Palermo, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) August 2, 2021 – MSC Cruises and Costa Cruises have set bup a 50/50 jint venture to manage passenger terminals at...
Kazakhstan receives delegation of Astrakhan region, Russian Federation
Prime Minister Askar Mamin receives delegation of Astrakhan region, Russian Federation – July 26, 2021 The parties discussed topical issues of...
MSC takes delivery of MSC Seashore from Fincantieri in Monfalcone
Monfalcone, Italy – July 26, 2021 – In the presence of Minister of Sustainable Infrastructures and Mobility prof. Enrico Giovannini, MSC Group today...
Malta: Total cruise passenger traffic during the second quarter of 2021 amounted to 23,437
During the second quarter of 2021, there were 19 cruise liner calls in Malta. Transit passengers accounted for the absolute majority of total traffic, reaching...
MSC Cruises restarts its activity in the Port of València
València, July 21, 2021 – MSC Cruises resumes its activity in the Port of Valencia. It will be next Friday 30th July when the latest generation ship MSC...
DP World Limassol advances digital transformation of Limassol port presentation
Limassol, Cyprus, July 16, 2021: DP World Limassol’s CEO, Nawaf Abdulla presented the latest developments in the digital transformation of the Limassol...
Marella Cruises chooses Malaga as its base port in autumn 2021
The British shipping company Marella Cruises chooses Malaga as the base port to start two new itineraries next October. The company plans to make 4...
Italy bans cruise ships from the Venice lagoon
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) July 14, 2021 – Minister of Sustainable Infrastructures and Mobility, Enrico Giovannini, said yesterday that from 1 August...
Tui Cruises departs from Genoa
The “Mein Schiff 4” of Tui Cruises, a brand born from the agreement between the shipping company Royal Caribbean Cruises and the tour operator TUI, sets...
Port of València receives the stopover of the AIDAperla cruise ship
València, July 8, 2021 – The cruise ship AIDAperla has docked this morning at the Port of València with 1,371 passengers on board, the majority of...
Port Authority of Málaga approves annual accounts for 2020
Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) July 5, 2021 – The Board of Directors of the Port Authority of Málaga has approved the annual accounts for the 2020...
Port of Venice issues tender seeking a solution for handling cruises ships
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) June 30, 2021 – The Port of Venice has issued a tender for the “competition of ideas” aimed at collecting...
Italian ministry issues tender for Venice port cruise ship solutions
Cruise ships: Giovannini – the tender is a decisive step for a structural solution to safeguard Venice and its lagoon – June 30, 2021 “The...
The Port of Barcelona will see a safe, staggered and sustainable resumption of cruise ship activity
The Port of Barcelona has worked with the shipping companies and the rest of the agents in the cruise sector to have a staggered, sustainable and, above all,...
Cruise ships return to Port of Cartagena
Cartagena, June 19, 2021.- After a 15-month break, the cruise ships return to the Port of Cartagena. The ‘Mein Schiff 2’ of the German...