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.
Málaga port’s cruise traffic to rise 15% in 2017
Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) December 27, 2017 – Málaga port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Málaga) expects to close 2017 with 510,682 cruise...
Alicante port expects 3% cargo traffic rise in 2017
Alicante, Spain (PortSEurope) December 21, 2017 – Alicante port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Alicante) expects its cargo traffic to rise by 3% in 2017,...
Ceuta port handles ten cruise calls in Jan-Oct 2017
Ceuta, Spain (PortSEurope) December 21, 2017 – Ceuta port handled ten cruise calls in the first ten months of 2017, down from 16 in the like period of last...
Porto Cruise Terminal Welcomed 100 cruise calls in 2017
Porto, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 18, 2017 – Cruise activity at the Porto Cruise Terminal recorded a new high in 2017, receiving 100 cruise calls,...
Málaga port to handle 20 large cruise ships in 2018
Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) December 18, 2017 – Málaga port expects to handle 20 calls of large cruise ships transporting more than 4,000 passengers next...
Cádiz port to break cruise traffic record in 2018
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) December 18, 2017 – Cádiz port authority (Autoridad Portuaria Bahía de Cádiz) expects to break its record of cruises next...
Bordeaux increases contact with China in 2017
Bordeaux, France (PortSEurope) December 16, 2017 – Firstly, in Canton (port twinned with Bordeaux Port Atlantique), the ports of Bordeaux and Nantes...
Gijón port to handle 17 cruise calls next year
Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) December 11, 2017 – Gijón port has scheduled for next year a total of 17 cruise calls for the period between April and...
Pasaia port joins Cruise Europe association
Pasaia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 11, 2017 – Pasaia port has become a member of association Cruise Europe, which brings together some 100 ports in the...
Almería port cruise traffic declines in 2017
Almería, Spain (PortSEurope) December 8, 2017 – Almería port saw the positive trend in the cruise segment, kept since 2014, broken this year. With the...
Tenerife port to handle seven cruise ships in three days
Tenerife, Spain (PortSEurope) December 8, 2017 – Tenerife port will handle a total of seven cruise ships with 13,300 passengers and 3,760 crew members on...
Leixões Cruise Terminal awarded by “O Norte Somos Nós”
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 8, 2017 – Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixões (Leixões Cruise Port Terminal) has been awarded a...
La Spezia to become home port for Royal Carribean
La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) December 5, 2017 – Italy’s Authority of the Eastern Ligurian Sea Port System is expected to sign a contract with Royal...
Costa Group commits to Marseille port
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) December 5, 2017 – The Costa Group, the leading tourism group, the No. 1 cruiser in Europe has renewed its commitment to...
Tenerife port to handle 115,000 cruise passengers in December
Tenerife, Spain (PortSEurope) December 4, 2017 – Tenerife port expects to handle 115,000 cruise passengers in December, municipality councillor Alfonso...
DP World Limassol issues tender for the management of the duty free shops
Limassol, Cyprus (PortSEurope) December 3, 2017 – DP World Limassol (DPWL) has issued tender for the management of the duty-free shops at its new...
Port of Venice publishes documents linked to cruise ship decision
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) December 1, 2017 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Settentrionale (Northern Adriatic Sea Port Authority)...