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.
Sete port to handle 70 cruise calls in 2018
Sete, France (Ports Europe) April 19, 2017 – As a port of entry to the medieval city of Carcassonne, the port of Sete expects 100,000 cruise passengers...
Palermo port handles 10,000 cruise passengers in single day
Palermo, Italy (Ports Europe) April 19, 2017 – Palermo port handled around 10,000 cruise passengers in a single day on April 18. Costa Fascinosa and MSC...
Small French ports attract more and more cruise passengers
Sete, France (Ports Europe) April 19, 2017 – At Sète, Bordeaux, Honfleur, La Rochelle and Port-Vendres, the number of passenger ships is rising sharply....
Barcelona port starts information campaign on cruise industry emissions
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 19, 2017 – In order to strengthen transparency in relation to gas emissions of cruise ships, Barcelona port has...
Cartagena port will receive first triple cruise call for summer season
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) April 17, 2017 – Cartagena port will receive the first triple cruise call for the summer season today. The...
Event – Adriatic Sea Forum – April 27,28, 2017 – Budva
Budva, Montenegro (Ports Europe) April 14, 2017 – The Adriatic Sea Forum, an international forum for marine tourism, will take place in Budva,...
Ceuta port to officially launch 2017 cruise season
Ceuta, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – Ceuta port will officially open the 2017 cruise season with the arrival of the vessel “Pacific...
Lisbon port to handle 17 turnaround cruise calls in April
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – Lisbon port expects to handle 44 cruise calls in April, with 17 of them being turnaround, where cruises...
Northern Sardinia ports passenger traffic rises 17% in 2016
Olbia, Italy (Ports Europe) April 7, 2017 – The ports in northern Sardinia, namely Olbia, Golfo Aranci and Porto Torres, handled a total of 4.5 million...
Canary Islands cruise traffic declines 6% in Jan-Feb 2017
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) April 6, 2017 – The cruise traffic to the ports of the Canary Islands stood at 452,519 passengers in the first two months of...
MedCruise names Huelva “port of the week”
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) April 4, 2017 – The Mediterranean cruise ports association MedCruise has named Huelva harbour “port of the week”,...
Ceremony marks first presentation of Silver Muse by Fincantieri
Trieste, 2 April 2017 – Silver Muse, the new ultra-luxury cruise ship built by Fincantieri for Silversea Cruises, was presented today at Fincantieri’s...
Bilbao port launches cruise passenger station
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 30, 2017 – Bilbao port hit a historical landmark in its role as an economic engine with the inauguration of the new...
East Med cruising in the spotlight at Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum
Athens, Greece (Ports Europe) March 29, 2017 – Richard Vogel, president & CEO, Pullmantur; Larry Pimentel, president & CEO, Azamara Cruises;...
Lisbon announced as the venue for Seatrade Cruise Med 2018
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) March 29, 2017 – Seatrade has announced that Lisbon will be the 2018 venue for the largest cruise industry event...
A Coruna port agrees 90 cruise calls by 2018
A Coruna, Spain (Ports Europe) March 27, 2017 – A Coruna port agreed a total of 90 cruise calls by 2018, the port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de A...
Constanta – River Adagio opens the cruise season
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) March 27, 2017 – The river vessel River Adagio, under the flag of Malta, has called at the passenger terminal of...
Valletta Cruise Port has been awarded the Best Terminal Operator Award
Valletta, Malta (Ports Europe) March 26, 2017 – Valletta Cruise Port, a subsidiary of Global Ports Holding, has been awarded the Best Terminal Operator...
Spanish cruise ports aim to hit 9.5 million passenger mark by 2020
Malaga, Spain (Ports Europe) March 25, 2017 – Spain’s cruise ports welcomed a record 8.7 million passengers in 2016, a 0.6% rise from 2015. Ports in...
DP World Limassol welcomes first maiden call cruise ship
Limassol, Cyprus (Ports Europe) March 25, 2017 – DP World Limassol has successfully welcomed the maiden call of the newest cruise ship in the world,...