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.
Corfu to receive EU funds for port developments
Corfu, Greece (Ports Europe) February 7, 2019 – The Port Authority of Corfu has announced the approval of the following projects of strategic importance...
MSC and Heraklion port discuss cooperation
Heraklion, Crete, Greece (Ports Europe) February 7, 2019 – The Port Authority of Heraklion SA and MSC – Mediterranean Shipping Company have met to...
A Coruña port to break cruise traffic record in 2019
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) February 5, 2019 – A Coruña port expects to surpass this year the record of cruise ship traffic with a planned calendar with...
Cádiz port to handle 286 cruise calls in 2019
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) February 4, 2019 – Cádiz port is forecasting 286 cruise calls throughout 2019, with May as the month with the highest number...
Caspian Sea cruises planned
Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) 02.02.2019 – Azerbaijan and Russia are to develop sea cruise-based tourism between the ports of the five Caspian Sea...
Salerno port to handle 69 cruise ships in 2019
Salerno, Italy (Ports Europe) February 1, 2019 – A total of 69 cruise ships will dock in the port of Salerno in 2019, Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar...
Las Palmas ports cruise traffic rises 7.3% in 2018
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) January 31, 2019 – Las Palmas ports handled 1,330,553 cruise passengers in 2018, up 7.3%, with an increase...
Andalusia ports cruise traffic rises 3.1% in 2018
Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) January 30, 2019 – A total of 994,170 cruise passengers arrived at Andalusian ports aboard 779 ships in 2018, which represents...
Alicante port handles over 100,000 cruise passengers in 2018
Alicante, Spain (Ports Europe) January 30, 2019 – Alicante port has closed 2018 with more than 100,000 cruise passengers arriving in a total of 54 ships,...
Cartagena port to close January with 10,000 cruise passengers
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) January 28, 2019 – Cartagena port expects to close January with more than 10,000 cruise passengers for the first...
TUI Cruises chooses Malaga as a base port for 2020
Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) January 28, 2019 – The German cruise ship company TUI Cruises GmbH has chosen Malaga as the base port for the summer of...
Seven cruise companies agree to visit Ferrol port in 2019
Ferrol, Spain (Ports Europe) January 28, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Ferrol-San Cibrao (APF – Port Authority of Ferrol) has closed an agreement...
Analysts expect new growth record for cruise industry in 2019
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) January 25, 2019 – The cruise industry will continue to grow in 2019, breaking a historical record: 24 new ships will be...
Spanish ports exceed 10 million cruise passengers in 2018
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 24, 2019 – The ports of Spain exceeded the objective: the cruise industry contributed 10 million passengers during...
Ravenna port needs dredging to recover cruise traffic
Ravenna, Italy (Ports Europe) January 23, 2019 – Ravenna port sees cruise traffic decline as a result of the draft risk it poses. The number of cruise...
Greek ports cruise traffic rises 3.5% in 2018
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) January 22, 2019 – Greek ports handled 4.79 million cruise passengers in 2018, up 3.5%, the association of Greek ports...
Lisbon records 11% more cruise passengers in 2018
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 16, 2019 – Administração do Porto de Lisboa has reported that in 2018, the port handled 577,603 passengers, up...
Santander will receive 24 cruises and more than 33,000 cruise passengers in 2019
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) January 15, 2019 – The Port of Santander will receive 24 vessels in 2019 dedicated to the leisure sector, unprecedented...
PortMiami delegation visits Madrid to discuss port issues
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) January 13, 2019 – A delegation from “PortMiami” has visited Madrid and held talks with Puertos del Estado...
Spain’s cruise market continues to expand
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) January 9, 2019 – Spain continues to gain market share in the world cruise industry, with Barcelona as a reference in the...