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.
Pullmantur consolidates its choice of Vigo as port base
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) May 1, 2018 – After several consecutive years chartering an ocean liner with passenger boarding in the port of Vigo, the Spanish...
Alicante port expects 53 cruise calls in 2018
Alicante, Spain (PortSEurope) April 30, 2018 – A total of 53 cruise ships are scheduled to dock during 2018 in the port of Alicante, according to a statement...
MSC and Royal Caribbean submit documentation for La Spezia port development
La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) April 30, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure Orientale (AdSP – Eastern Ligurian Sea Port...
DP World Limassol Celebrates Official Opening
Limassol, Cyprus (PortSEurope) April 16, 2018 – DP World Limassol will officially open its new cruise passenger terminal May 3, 2018. The terminal will...
Las Palmas port recovers leading position in winter season cruise traffic
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) April 27, 2018 – Port traffic statistics for the month of March 2018 confirm the recovery of Las Palmas port...
Las Palmas port’s cargo, passenger traffic rises in Q1 2018
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) April 26, 2018 – Las Palmas port has maintained the dynamics of recent months and registered in March 2018 increases in...
Ecologists in Action urge the Spanish government to support an Emission Control Area in the Mediterranean
April 19, 2018 The German organisation, Control Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (henceforth NABU), together with Ecologists in Action, have carried...
28 cruise ships will pass in the ports of the Azores in last two weeks of April
Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal (PortSEurope) April 20, 2018 – In the last two weeks of April, the Azores will establish a new record of stopovers and...
Porto 2000 meets the Livorno Chamber of Commerce
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) April 20, 2018 – At the invitation of the president of Camera di Commercio della Maremma e del Tirreno (Chamber of...
Valencia port breaks record of cruise traffic for single day
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) April 20, 2018 – Valencia port handled the simultaneous call of four cruises on April 19, breaking its historical record of...
Transcoma Cruises activity intensifies as cruise season starts
Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) April 20, 2018 – The arrival of the spring marks the start of the high season of cruises in the Mediterranean, a fact that...
“Crown Princess” arrives in Barcelona to start summer trips in Mediterranean
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 19, 2018 – The “Crown Princess” ship of the cruise ship Princess Cruises, arrived on April 16 at Barcelona...
Carnival invests €30 million in second terminal at Barcelona port
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) April 19, 2018 – Carnival Corporation, the largest cruise company in the world, has invested €30 million ($37.1 million) in...
La Spezia port set for LNG cruise ships visits
La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) April 19, 2018 – The La Spezia Panigaglia regasification plant is moving towards a phase of work with the arrival of the...
Costa Cruises and Marseille port sign sustainable development agreement
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) April 19, 2018 – Costa Cruises and the Grand Port of Marseilles (GPMM) have signed a partnership agreement to pursue...
Spain’s Pullmantur expands in Latin America
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 18, 2018 – Spanish company Pullmantur, a leader in the country’s cruise market, registered in 2017 an increase of...
Bilbao port works to attract cruise passengers from USA
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) April 17, 2018 – Bilbao port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao) is working to attract cruise passengers from the United...