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.
Piombino port’s cruise traffic doubles in 2018
Piombino, Italy (PortSEurope) November 9, 2018 – Piombino port has managed to double the number of cruise passengers serviced this year to 12,759. ...
Croatia reports increased cruise ship traffic in Jan-Sep 2018
Zagreb, Croatia (PortSEurope) November 9, 2018 – In the first nine months of 2018, 64 cruise ships visited Croatian ports with a total of 554 visits...
Piombino and Portoferraio ports report successful cruise seasons
Piombino, Italy (PortSEurope) November 8, 2018 – The cruise season is coming to an end and cruise ship companies that have alternated in the ports of...
Ancona port closes cruise season with traffic increase
Ancona, Italy (PortSEurope) November 8, 2018 – Ancona port closed the cruise season on November 8, recording a total of 38 calls, 20 of them of the MSC...
Fincantieri: The Chinese cruise hub established
Trieste, Italy, November 5, 2018 In the presence of the Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Minister of Economic development and Labour Luigi Di Maio and...
Bilbao port closes record cruise season in 2018
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) November 5, 2018 – Bilbao port has closed a record cruise season with 86,500 passengers, with 3,000 of them using...
Italy’s Fincantieri establishes cruise hub in China
Shanghai, China (PortSEurope) November 5, 2018 – Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri SpA has signed a contract for the creation of an industrial hub for cruise,...
MSC Cruises to handle about 1.1 million passengers in Genoa port in 2019
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) November 2, 2018 – MSC Cruises, the largest private cruise company in the world, is preparing to close 2018 and inaugurate 2019 by...
Cagliari port registers record-high cruise traffic in October
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (PortSEurope) November 1, 2018 – Cagliari port recorded a record-high October in terms of cruise traffic, which increased tenfold...
Valencia port handles nine cruise ships for just 48 hours
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) November 1, 2018 – Valencia port handled this week a total of nine cruise ships for just 48 hours for the first time in its...
CLIA holds ‘Luxury Showcase’ cruise event in Málaga port
Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) October 27, 2018 – The Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) held ‘Luxury Showcase’ cruise event between...
La Spezia port authority plans temporary maritime station in Marina di Carrara
La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) October 28, 2018 – An investment of around €250,000 ($285,611) will be used to build a 400 m² temporary maritime...
DP World Limassol launches online platform to promote cruise tourism
Limassol, Cyprus, October 18, 2018 – DP World Limassol, the operator of the New Passenger Terminal at the Limassol port has introduced a new digital...
World’s largest cruise ship visits Valencia port
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) October 27, 2018 – Last week, MS Symphony of the Seas, an Oasis-class cruise ship owned and operated by Royal Caribbean...
Marella Cruises to stop using Málaga as base port in 2019
Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) October 25, 2018 – UK-based company Marella Cruises, former Thomson Cruises, will stop using Málaga as a base port next year,...
Genoa port set to benefit from extra Volotea flights from local airport
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) October 25, 2018 – The low-cost Spanish airline Volotea has announced new routes from Cristoforo Colombo airport in Genoa to...
Western Sicily sees increased cruise passenger numbers in 2018
Palermo, Sicily, Italy (PortSEurope) October 21, 2018 – During the eighth edition of the Italian Cruise Day conference in Trieste, information released...