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.
Tenerife port books record-high cruise traffic in 2017-18 season
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) August 21, 2018 – Autoridad Portuaria de Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Port Authority of Tenerife) closed the 2017-2018...
Ukraine’s Odessa hopes to become cruise homeport
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 21, 2018 – Ukraine’s Odessa port aims to become a homeport for cruise companies operating itineraries in the...
Saint-Nazaire port mulls installation of cruise floating dock
Nantes.Saint-Nazaire, France (Ports Europe) August 20, 2018 – Saint-Nazaire port is considering the installation of a floating dock to serve larger cruise...
Crystal Cruises prepares luxury cruise at Bulgaria’s Burgas port
Burgas, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) August 17, 2018 – The Black Sea is becoming an attractive destination for luxury cruise ships, Bulgaria’s Burgas port...
Norway’s Fred Olsen to celebrate 170th anniversary at Cádiz port
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) August 17, 2018 – Cádiz port has received support from Norwegian shipping company Fred Olsen in its goal of becoming a...
Marseille port to hit its cruise passenger traffic target ahead of schedule
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) August 15, 2018 – Marseille Provence Cruise Club is expected to reach its target of 2 million passengers handled annually...
Greece’s Chania port to handle 95,000 cruise passengers in Jan-Aug
Chania, Greece (Ports Europe) August 14, 2018 – Greece’s Chania port, located on Crete island, expects to handle about 95,000 cruise passengers in the...
Lisbon to host 2018 edition of Seatrade Cruise Med
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 13, 2018 – With 27 million cruise passengers in 2017 and a market growth of 5.4%, the cruise sector strengthens and...
Málaga port selected as third best Western Mediterranean cruise destination
Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) August 10, 2018 – Málaga port has been selected as the third best cruise destination in the Western Mediterranean in the...
Avilés port aspires to become cruise port of Camino de Santiago
Avilés, Spain (Ports Europe) August 9, 2018 – Avilés aspires to be a cruise port of the Camino de Santiago. The project involves several ports and...
AdSP Civitavecchia promotes port and regional cruise sector development
Civitavecchia, Italy (Ports Europe) August 8, 2018 – A working group was convened for the third time, by the president of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale...
Huelva port cruise traffic rises 162% y/y in H1 2018
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) August 8, 2018 – The number of cruise passengers handled by Huelva port in the first half of 2018 increased by 162.34% on the...
Costa Crociere presents upgrade proposals for cruise buildings in Genoa port
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) August 7, 2018 – Functional improvements and a new restyling of the maritime station are part of the plans submitted by Costa...
Cádiz port to break cruise traffic record in 2018
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2018 – Cádiz port aims to break its cruise record in 2018 with 325 calls. If the forecasts are met, the barrier of...
Spanish ports cruise traffic rises in H1 2018
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 3, 2018 – Spanish ports serviced 4.47 million cruise passengers in the first half of the year, which is 23.56% more...
Málaga port sees improved first half 2018 cruise ship numbers
Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) August 2, 2018 – In the first semester of 2018, the port of Malaga handled 207,277 passengers and 127 cruise ships, up...
Assoporti and ENIT sign joint development agreement
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) August 1, 2018 – Assoporti, the Italian port association, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Ente Nazionale...