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.
Dubrovnik wants to halve cruise visitors
Dubrovnik, Croatia (Ports Europe) September 10, 2017 – Dubrovnik Mayor Mato Franković has contacted the Cruise Line International Association (CLIA),...
Assoporti attends Seatrade Europe event in Hamburg
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) September 8, 2017 – Assoporti, the Italian Port Association, attended the Seatrade Europe event in Hamburg to promote...
Seatrade Europe continues to hold its position as a must-attend event for the industry
Hamburg, 8 September 2017 – Seatrade Europe, the leading trade event for the European cruise and river cruise industry – closed today (8 September...
Barcelona port receives award during Seatrade Europe
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) September 8, 2017 – Barcelona port has been recognised by the International German Cruise Awards as part of the Seatrade...
Event – 51st MedCruise General Assembly, Toulon, October 11-14
Toulon, France (Ports Europe) September 7, 2015 – The 51st MedCruise General Assembly is scheduled to take place October 11-14, 2017 in Toulon,...
Azores Islands’ ports to handle 54 cruise calls Sep-Dec 2017
Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 7, 2017 – The first week of September marks the return of cruise ships to the Azores. Portos dos...
Six Croatian ports to receive €41.2 million funding
Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) September 7, 2017 – The six Croatian ports that handle international passenger traffic received a funding of a total of HRK...
Lisbon port to handle 55 cruise calls in September
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – Lisbon port expects to handle 55 calls of cruise ships in September, one-third of which will...
Gibraltar Tourist Board & Port Authority attend Seatrade Convention
Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – The Gibraltar Tourist Board and Port Authority are attending the Seatrade Europe Cruise Convention....
Izmir tourism visitors increases steadily
Izmir, Turkey (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – Aegean Touristic Hotels and Investors Associations – ETIK has published a report showing that Turkish...
NABU publishes its 7th cruise ship pollution rankings
Berlin, Germany (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – Even in the seventh edition of the cruise industry ranking, not a single cruise ship in Europe from...
A Coruña port expects record-high cruise traffic in September
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – With the double call of the vessels “Silver Muse” and “Sea Cloud II”, on...
Cádiz port participates in Seatrade Europe to attract river cruise traffic
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – Cádiz port participates this week in the most important cruise event in Europe, the ‘Seatrade...
Valencia port expects private investment in new cruise terminal
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) plans to announce the next approval of the...
Azores islands ports expect record-high number of cruise calls in 2017
Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 4, 2017 – The ports of the Azores islands in Portugal expects a record-high number of cruise...
Greece sees reduced cruise ship visitors
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 4, 2017 – Initial figures indicate that the local cruise ship industry will decrease in 2017. The Union of...
Portugal’s Funchal port to handle 20 cruise calls in September
Funchal, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 2, 2017 – The port of Funchal will handle a total of 20 calls of cruise ships in September, while in Porto...
Lisbon port welcomes another ultra-luxury cruise ship
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 2, 2017 – Silver Muse is the latest ultra-luxury cruise ship has arrived in Lisbon August 30, where it ends an...
Cruise Shipping and Urban Development: The Case of Piraeus
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 2, 2017 – The International Transport Forum (ITF) has published a report which assesses the impacts of cruise...
Tenerife port to handle 300,000 cruise passengers this season
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) September 1, 2017 – The cruise season begins in the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife in September, when it is expected to...