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.
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...
Nantes.St-Nazaire considers cruise port development
Nantes.Saint-Nazaire (PortSEurope) January 9, 2018 – Saint-Nazaire, the port city located at the mouth of the Loire estuary, is best known for its...
Las Palmas port cruise traffic rises 6.6% in Jan-Nov 2017
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) January 8, 2018 – Las Palmas port handled 985,662 cruise passengers in the eleven months through November, up 6.6% on the...
Costa Cruises starts world tour from Venice
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) January 5, 2018 – The Costa Cruises world tour with the Costa Luminosa vessel starts from Venice on January 5. A total of 106...
Valencia port expects 197 cruise calls in 2018
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) January 5, 2018 – Valencia port has already scheduled 197 cruise calls for 2018, a figure that falls slightly below the 203...
MSC Cruises to return to Funchal
Funchal, Madeira, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 4, 2018 – MSC’s regular cruise ships will return this year to the port of the Madeiran capital,...
MSC and Royal Caribbean interested in La Spezia port investment
La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) January 3, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure Orientale (AdSP – Eastern Ligurian Sea Port...
Tenerife port cruise traffic rises 5% in Jan-Nov 2017
Tenerife, Spain (PortSEurope) January 3, 2018 – Tenerife port handled 769,176 cruise passengers in the first eleven months of 2017, up 5% on the year. The...
Las Palmas port posts largest cruise traffic growth in Spain
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) January 2, 2018 – Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas) recorded a 12% increase in cruise traffic...
Spanish ports handle 8.5 million cruise passengers in Jan-Nov 2018
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) January 2, 2018 – Spanish ports handled a total of 8.5 million passengers in the first eleven months of 2017, up 4.31% on the...