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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.

Marseille – Mediterranean Air Day – the environmental question will prevail in port economics

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 20, 2017 – On November 14, 2017, Marseille hosted “Mediterranean Air Day” (Journée...

Port of Heraklion opens new cruise terminal

Heraklion, Greece (PortSEurope) November 19, 2017 – The Port of Heraklion has celebrated the official opening of the upgraded cruise terminal. In...

Portuguese Minister of Economy visits Leixões port

Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 17, 2017 – The Portuguese Minister of Economy visited the Leixões port on November 15 and praised the...

A Coruña port to handle 180,000 cruise passengers in 2017

A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) November 16, 2017 – A Coruña port has handled 168,000 passengers so far this year, an unprecedented figure that less than two...

Global Ports Holding opens new cruise terminal at Lisbon port

Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 16, 2017 – Global Ports Holding’s new cruise terminal building in Lisbon has been officially opened at a...

Marseille welcomes MSC Orchestra vessel

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 16, 2017 – The Port of Marseille Fos and the MSC (Mediterranean Shipping Company) have held a press event to...

Koper port cruise season ends

Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) November 15, 2017 – In 2017, 61 cruise ships carrying almost 72,000 passengers docked in the Koper Passenger Terminal. In...

A Coruña port receives 168,000 cruise passengers since start of 2017

A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) November 10, 2017 – A Coruña port has already received 168,000 passengers since the beginning of the year. And there will...

Event: 52nd MedCruise General Assembly, May 23-26, 2018, Valletta

Valletta, Malta (PortSEurope) November 10, 2017 – The 52nd MedCruise General Assembly will take place May 23-26, 2018, in Valletta, Malta. During the...

Miami – Marseille: a win-win deal for the ports

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 8, 2017 – The economic mission taking place this week in Miami is full of promise for the 12 sectors of...

Tenerife to record best November in terms of cruise traffic since 2012

Tenerife, Spain (PortSEurope) November 9, 2017 – Tenerife port expects to handle in November the largest number of cruise passengers registered in the...

Ceuta port handles 12,500 cruise passengers in Jan-Sep 2017

Ceuta, Spain (PortSEurope) November 8, 2017 – Ceuta port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Ceuta) has closed the first nine months of 2017 with a traffic...

Venice issues cruise ships restrictions

Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) November 8, 2017 – An Italian government committee has ruled that ships weighing 100,000 tonnes or more will no longer be...

Port of Sète sees improved traffic in first 10 months of 2017

Sète, France (PortSEurope) November 8, 2017 – The port of Sète ended the first ten months of 2017 with traffic up 3%, with most sectors showing gains....

Marella Cruises to keep Málaga as base port in 2018

Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) November 6, 2017 – UK company Marella Cruises – formerly Thomson Cruises – belonging to the TUI Group, has...

City of Marseille sends business delegation to Miami

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 5, 2017 – An official mission of the City of Marseille, led by Jean-Claude Gaudin, mayor and president of the...

PwC says Cádiz port has potential to become cruise home port

Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) November 3, 2017 – Cádiz port has the opportunity to become a home port for cruises. This is the main conclusion of the...

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