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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.

Cagliari sees challenging cruise traffic figures

Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (Ports Europe) February 1, 2018 – In 2017, Cagliari hosted 163 cruise ships in port, transited 430,000 passengers who arrived...

Lisbon port breaks cruise traffic record in 2017

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 31, 2018 – The number of cruise ships that called in Lisbon port increased by 7.1% last year to 123, which is a new...

Malta: Cruise traffic increases in Oct-Dec 2017

Valletta, Malta (Ports Europe) January 24, 2018 Total cruise passenger traffic during the fourth quarter of 2017 amounted to 187,280, an increase of 5.5% over...

Spain handles 9 million cruise passengers in 2017

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 23, 2018 – Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado, emphasized with its presence in the Fitur fair in Madrid...

Puertos Canarios joins Medcruise association

Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) January 22, 2018 – Puertos Canarios has joined the Medcruise organisation. MedCruise is the Association...

Barcelona port to invest €140 million in cruise traffic reorganisation

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) January 22, 2018 – Barcelona port plans to invest €140 million ($171.5 million) in the reorganisation of its cruise...

Tarragona port receives recognition from Costa Cruises

Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) January 22, 2018 – Tarragona port and the members of Tarragona Cruise Port Costa Daurada last week received special...

Event: 2nd European Forum – Shaping the Port of the Future – Civitavecchia, April 10, 2018

The 2nd European Forum – Shaping the Port of the Future – will take place in Civitavecchia, April 10, 2018, organised by The MediTelegraph and On...

Valencia port to handle 197 cruise calls in 2018

Valencia (Spain) January 18, 2018 – Valencia port will handle 197 cruise calls this year and expects the number of cruise passengers to increase by 3%....

Motril port officially opens passenger terminal

Motril (Spain) January 18, 2018 – Motril port has taken advantage of the launch of Fitur fair in Madrid on January 17 to deliver symbolically to the...

Cruise business could be key to Marina di Carrara

La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) January 18, 2018 – At a recent Porto Lab event in Carrara, the possible role of the cruise industry in the future of...

Cruise industry generates €15 million income in A Coruña

A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) January 17, 2018 – Cruise tourism in A Coruña experienced in 2017 a historic year that brought 250,000 people to the city,...

Las Palmas port leads for fourth consecutive years the Canary cruise sector ranking

Tenerife, Spain (PortSEurope) January 15, 2018 – For a long period of time, the ports of Tenerife and Arrecife were located above Las Palmas in the cruise...

Alicante port to handle 96,000 cruise passengers in 2018

Alicante, Spain (PortSEurope) January 15, 2018 – The relaunch of the cruise calls of the Britannia ship (part of P & O Cruises) starting in June will be...

Cruise passengers visiting Greece drops 11% in 2017

Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) January 10, 2018 – We are particularly pleased to present you this year, as in the last six years, the final list of Greek...

Cartagena port to handle 200,000 cruise passengers in 2018

Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) January 10, 2018 – Cartagena port is consolidating its position as a leading home port for cruise traffic in the Mediterranean...

Duferco, DP Consulting file appeal against Venice port authority decision

Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) January 10, 2018 – Italian companies Duferco Italia Holding S.p.A. and DP Consulting s.r.l. have filed an appeal with the Veneto...

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