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.
Port of Barcelona approves two agreements to improve cruise terminals
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) December 14, 2022 – The Port of Barcelona has approved two agreements that will speed up the transfer of passenger...
Fusina terminal to host cruise ships for Venice
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) December 6, 2022 – Venice Ro-Port Mos, concessionaire of the Autostrade del Mare terminal, and Venezia Terminal Passeggeri...
Venice Passenger Terminal issues passenger transfer tender
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) November 15, 2022 – Venice Passenger Terminal (VTP) issues a passenger transfer tender for the transfer of passengers from...
Turkey: Cruise ship passengers – January-October 2022
Ankara, Turkey (PortSEurope) November 14, 2022 – In the first 10 months of 2022, Turkish ports handled 918,484 cruise ship passengers. In October 2022,...
Baleària to construct public passenger terminal in the Port of Valencia
València, Spain (PortSEurope) November 11, 2022 – Baleària Eurolineas Marítimas S.A. has been awarded a contract to construct and operate a new public...
Cruise passengers in Port of Lisbon rise 139% in October
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 10, 2022 – Last October, the Port of Lisbon received 49 cruise stops, up +40% compared to the same month of...
MSC Cruises sees October bookings record
Geneva, Switzerland (PortSEurope) November 9, 2022 – MSC Cruises sees October bookings record with nearly 400,000 passenger bookings for winter 2022/23...
Piraeus Port Authority – 9-month traffic figures
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) October 28, 2022 – Piraeus Port Authority has reported traffic figures for the first nine months of 2022. Containers...
Bilbao, the front door to the Basque Country for cruise liners
News – Bilbao – Cruise Liners: A good campaign for 2022 – October 2022 2020 and 2021 were characterised globally by mistrust in mobility....
Costa Cruises to confirm Taranto port as destination
Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) October 26, 2022 – Costa Cruises is to confirm Taranto port as destination in an announcement tomorrow. The partnership is...
A delegation from Oman has visited the port of Civitavecchia
Civitavecchia, Italy (Ports Europe) October 25, 2022 – A delegation from Oman has visited the port of Civitavecchia and was welcomed by the President of...
Global Ports Holdings forecasts 11.5 million cruise ship passengers in 2023
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) October 19, 2022 – Global Ports Holdings (GPH) forecasts 11.5 million cruise ship passengers in 2023, which would be over...
Port of Las Palmas finalises plans for temporary cruise terminals
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) October 13, 2022 – The Port of Las Palmas is finalising plans for two temporary cruise terminals on both...
Port of Koper receives four cruise ships simultaneously
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) October 8, 2022 – The Port of Koper has received four cruise ships simultaneously for the first time. Mayor of Koper...
Port Authority of Tenerife resubmits plan for Terminal de Cruceros
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) October 11, 2022 – Port Authority of Santa Cruz de Tenerife has resubmitted the revised plan...
Port of Lisbon increases cruise ship visits in first half of 2022
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) October 5, 2022 – The Port of Lisbon increased cruise ship visits in first half of 2022 to 154 compared to zero in the...
Cruise ship passengers visiting Turkey increase steadily
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) September 29, 2022 – Cruise ship passengers visiting Turkey have steadily increased in the first eight months of 2022....