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.
Costa Cruises promotes Tarragona as base port
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 7, 2017 – Costa Cruises and Tarragona Cruise Port Costa Daurada presented today the commencement of their joint...
Ferrol port to start 2017 cruise season on February 26
Ferrol, Spain (Ports Europe) February 6, 2017 – Ferrol port authority (Autoridad Portuaria Ferrol-San Cibrao) plans to start the cruise season on...
Event – 4th Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum 23-24 May 2017, Athens
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) February 2, 2017 – With more than 700 participants and 39 exhibitors from 20 countries and territories participating in a...
Costa Cruises to generate €2.2 million profit for Tarragona tourist companies
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 2, 2017 – The start of operation of Costa Cruises in Tarragona will generate a profit of approximately €2.2...
GPH acquires stakes in three Italian cruise port terminals
Cagliari, Italy (Ports Europe) February 1, 2017 – Turkey-based Global Ports Holding (GPH) has acquired stakes in three companies managing cruise ports...
Leixoes port to operate 107 cruise calls in 2017
Leixoes, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 27, 2017 – Leixoes port has already confirmed 107 calls of cruise ships, which will represent a growth of around...
Malaga port joins European LOCATIONS project
Malaga, Spain (Ports Europe) January 25, 2017 – Malaga port has joined the LOCATIONS (Low-Carbon Transport in Cruise Destination Cities) project of the...
MedCruise Board of Directors meeting to be held in Piraeus
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) January 25, 2017 – The 111th meeting of the MedCruise Board of Directors (The Association of Mediterranean Cruise...
Hellenic Ports Association reports an increase in cruise passengers in 2016
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) January 25, 2017 – Cruise passengers to Greece recorded a 5% increase in 2016, making it a ”good year” for the...
Greek cruise traffic set to fall in 2017
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) January 25, 2017 – Despite forecasts of robust growth for the international cruise travel industry, the Greek cruise...
Malta National Statistics Office reports record cruise year in 2016
Valletta, Malta (Ports Europe) January 21, 2017 – According to figures published by the National Statistics Office in Malta, 2016 was a record year for...
Tunis port handles first cruise ship for 2017
Tunis, Tunisia (Ports Europe) January 19, 2017 – La Goulette, the port of Tunisian capital Tunis, handled the first cruise ship for 2017 on January 18....
Motril port presents plan to promote tourism via ferry lines with Morocco
Motril, Spain (Ports Europe) January 18, 2017 – Motril port has presented at the International Tourism Fair (Fitur) a Plan of Action of Tourism for...
Cagliari port to handle 400,000 cruise passengers in 2017
Cagliari, Italy (Ports Europe) January 18, 2017 – Cagliari port expects to handle 400,000 cruise passengers in 2017, versus 260,000 last year. The...
Malaga port has 289 confirmed cruise calls in 2017
Malaga, Spain (Ports Europe) January 16, 2017 – Malaga port has already confirmed 289 cruise calls for the current season. Of these calls, seven correspond...
Spanish ports service around 8.7 million cruise passengers in 2016
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 16, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Minister Inigo de la Serna has announced that Spanish ports closed 2016 with about...
Malaga port handles three ships with destination Melilla
Malaga, Spain (Ports Europe) January 10, 2017 – Three ships with destination Melilla port coincided for the first time at Malaga port on January 8. Between...