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.
Fincantieri to build ‘next-generation’ Cunard cruise ship
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) September 27, 2017 – Fincantieri, the Trieste-based shipbuilder including cruise vessels, has signed a memorandum of...
MedCruise ports to work with airports and cruise lines to create cruise supply chain
Barcelona, Spain, September 22, 2017 MedCruise port member Barcelona plays a leading role in advancing discussions on how to best link aviation and cruising,...
MSC Cruises applies for construction of cruise terminal in Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) September 22, 2017 – MSC Cruises has officially filed for permission with Barcelona port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de...
A Coruña port welcomes MSC Cruises’ MSC Fantasia ship for first time
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) September 22, 2017 – MSC Cruises’ managing director for Spain, Emiliano González, has said he considers A Coruña to...
Venice port loses 500,000 cruise passengers since 2013
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) September 22, 2017 – The Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) said Venice port has lost nearly 500,000 cruise...
Ancona port passenger traffic rises 8% y/y in Jan-Aug 2017
Ancona, Italy (Ports Europe) September 22, 2017 – Ancona port serviced 824,000 passengers in the first eight months of 2017, up 8% on the year. This year,...
Palermo port to host Italian Cruise Day on October 6
Palermo, Italy (Ports Europe) September 20, 2017 – Palermo port will host the seventh edition of Italian Cruise Day, an annual forum of the cruise industry,...
Barcelona port to attend Passenger Ship Sustainability 2017 conference
London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) September 18, 2017 – Passenger Ship Sustainability 2017 will take place November 14-15, 2017, in Southampton, UK,...
Cartagena port prepares for intensive cruise traffic in October
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) September 18, 2107 – Cartagena port prepares for a very intensive month of October in terms of cruise traffic. Autumn is the...
MedCruise promotes Valencia port as cruise destination
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) September 18, 2107 – MedCruise, the association of Mediterranean cruise ports, has launched a campaign to promote Valencia...
Event: Italian Cruise Day – Palermo, October 6, 2017
Palermo, Italy (Ports Europe) September 17, 2017 – The 7th Italian Cruise Day will take place in the Sicilian port of Palermo, October 6, 2017. The vent...
Domestic and international passenger traffic in Greek ports: 1st Quarter 2015-2017
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 15, 2017 – The Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) has published statistics for domestic and international...
Hellenic Statistical Authority releases Q1 2017 maritime traffic figures
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 15, 2017 – The Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) has announced data on traffic of passengers, goods and...
Venice to protest against large cruise vessels in the lagoon
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) September 15, 2017 – On September 23-24, Venice will host a two-day event dedicated to discussion and debate about defense...
Italy’s Costa Cruises starts construction of its first LNG-fired ship
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – Italian company Costa Cruises, a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation, has said it started the construction of...
Tenerife port expects 38,300 cruise passengers in September
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) September 12, 2017 – Tenerife port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Tenerife) expects the number of cruise passengers handled...
Thomson Cruises to handle 92,000 passengers at Málaga port in 2018
Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – Thomson Cruises plans to handle 92,000 passengers at Málaga port aboard the “Thomson...
Ceuta port cruise traffic declines 17% y/y in Jan-July 2017
Ceuta, Spain (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – Ceuta port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Ceuta) has closed the first seven months of the year with a 17%...
Following its IPO in London, Global Ports Holding comments on the future
London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – Global Ports Holding (GPH) CEO Emre Sayin has said the IPO in London will enable the company...
Silversea Cruises orders new vessel from Fincantieri
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – Silversea Cruises and Fincantieri S.p.A. have signed a contract worth about 310 million euros, for the...