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.
Valenciaport sees growth of 5.11% in first eight months of 2018
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) September 24, 2018 – Valenciaport has handled a total of 3,366,675 TEU in the January-August period of this year, an...
Valenciaport presents its cruise offer in Lisbon under the slogan “Valencia dresses in green”
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) September 24, 2018 – Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia (APV – Valenciaport, Port Authority of Valencia) has attended...
Bari port to host initial meeting of THEMIS project
Bari, Italy (Ports Europe) September 24, 2018 – Bari port’s cruise terminal will host the kick-off meeting of the Territorial And Maritime Network...
Port Authority of Corfu participates in the INTER-PASS ports and airports program
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 24, 2018 – The Port Authority of Corfu (OLKE SA) has participated in the INTER-PASS Intermodal Passenger...
5.3 million cruise passengers passed through Spanish ports first 7 months of 2018
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) September 21, 2018 – President Ornella Chacón of Puertos del Estado, the state agency for ports, is heading the...
Carnival Corporation delegation visits Izmir port
Izmir, Turkey (Ports Europe) September 23, 2018 – Carnival Corporation & PLC representatives have attended a meeting at the Izmir Chamber of...
Sinergest-led consortium wins tender for majority stake in Porto di Livorno 2000
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) September 21, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale (AdSP – North Tyrrhenian Sea Port...
La Spezia, Marina di Carrara ports’ passenger traffic to rise in 2019
La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) September 21, 2018 – Italy’s Autorita’di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure Orientale (AdSP – Eastern Ligurian...
Livorno port promotes cruise business at Seatrade Cruise Med event
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 20, 2018 – A delegation for Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale (AdSP – North...
Four leading cruise line companies to increase Livorno port presence
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) September 20, 2018 – Livorno port is forecasting that around 900,000 passengers on 400 cruise ships will visit the port in...
Gijón port forecasts increase in cruise traffic in 2019
Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) September 20, 2018 – Gijón port participates at the Seatrade Cruise Med fair this year, in order to present its complete offer...
Cartagena port to handle 160 cruise calls in 2019
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) September 20, 2018 – Cartagena port expects to handle 160 cruise calls and 245,000 passengers in 2019, Fernando Muñoz, head...
Barcelona to become only port in Europe with terminals for Carnival, Royal Caribbean, MSC
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) September 20, 2018 – Barcelona will soon become the only port in Europe where the three largest cruise groups in the world,...
PortCastelló presents new cruise strategy at Seatrade Cruise Med
Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) September 20, 2018 – The PortCastelló Foundation will participate this week in the Seatrade Cruise Med fair in Lisbon...
Risposte Turismo presents large yachts study to Naples port
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) September 19, 2018 – Risposte Turismo, a tourism consultancy, has presented a report entitled “I grandi yacht e i...
Almería port aims to attract more cruise traffic at Seatrade Med Europe
Almería, Spain (Ports Europe) September 18, 2018 – Autoridad Portuaria de Almería (APA – Port Authority of Almería) president Carmen Ortiz will...
Avilés mayor presents “Camino de Santiago” cruise route
Avilés, Spain (Ports Europe) September 17, 2018 – The mayor of Avilés, Mariví Monteserín, has presented a new maritime route of short cruises called...