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Carnival Corporation

Carnival Corporation & plc is a British-American cruise operator with a combined fleet of over 100 vessels across 10 cruise line brands. The include: AIDA Cruises, Carnival Cruise Line, Costa Crociere, Cunard Line, Holland-America Line, P&O Cruises, P&O Cruises Australia, Princess Cruises und Seabourn Cruise Line.

Barcelona introduces new tourist tax – cruises in the cross hairs

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) October 4, 2024 – Barcelona is one of the many Mediterranean port-cities where local citizens have forced local...

Carnival to solar panels on cruise terminals in Port of Barcelona

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) October 4, 2024 – Carnival Corporation will install solar panels on the two cruise terminals it manages at the Port of...

Fincantieri launches “Star Princess” in Monfalcone port

Monfalcone, Italy (Ports Europe) September 27, 2024 – The shipbuilder Fincantieri has launched the “Star Princess,” the second LNG (liquefied...

‘Cruisezillas’: How much bigger can cruise ships get? – T & E

Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe)- August 13, 2024 – Clean energy advocate Transport & Environment has published a report asking how big cruise ships...

Fincantieri signs order with Carnival for three mega-cruise ships

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) July 24, 2024 – Fincantieri has signed a contract with Carnival Corporation & plc for the design, engineering, and...

Barcelona seeks more sustainable, newer & smaller cruise ships

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2024 – The Port of Barcelona seeks more sustainable, newer & smaller cruise ships. This is how it sees the...

Port of Bilbao starts cruise season

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) April 3, 2024 – On April 5, the Port of Bilbao will welcome the first two cruise ships of a season in which it is expected...

Sardinia predicts bumper cruise ship business in 2024

Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (Ports Europe) January 19, 2024 – The Sardinian Port System is forecasting over 650,000 cruise ship passengers on over 260...

Israeli ports and the Hamas attack

Ashdod, Israel (PortSEurope) October 9, 2023 – More than two days after Palestinian Islamist group Hamas gunmen burst across the fence from Gaza, entered...

La Spezia cruise businesses join Blue Flag agreement

La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) July 27, 2023 – A new voluntary “Blue Flag” agreement was signed yesterday at the cruise terminal in La...

Europe’s air pollutants from cruise ships higher than pre-Covid – study

Brussels, Belgium (PortSEurope) June 15, 2023 – Clean transport campaign group Transport & Environment has published a study which says that toxic...

Port of Bilbao sees continued cruise business recovery

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) May 2, 2023 – Last year’s performance in terms of cruise ship traffic in the Port of Bilbao is being consolidated. May is...

Malaga Cruise Port starts promotional visit to the USA

Miami, USA (PortSEurope) March 1, 2023 – Malaga Cruise Port is part of a delegation from Andalucia visiting Miami to promote the regions attraction to...

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...

Port of A Coruña to strengthen docks to support cruise ships

Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) September 8, 2022 – The Port of A Coruña is to strengthen docks to support ever larger cruise ships. Port infrastructure...

Costa Cruises looks at market in Sardinia

Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (Ports Europe) May 12, 2022 – The cruise group Costa Cruises has held a meeting with the port authority in Cagliari as it plans...

Port of Barcelona: home port for the newest and most sustainable cruise ships

This year, the Port of Barcelona will be the home port for some of the most efficient and modern cruise ships in the current world fleet, ships that...

Port of Málaga looks to attract U.S. cruise ship business

Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) February 23, 2022 – A delegation of parties from Málaga will hold an online promotional event with U.S. cruise ship...

Holland America Group considers adding Port of Almería to luxury roster

Almería, Spain (Ports Europe) February 15, 2022 – U.S. cruise company Holland America Group is considering adding the Port of Almería as a possible...

Port of Barcelona receives first UK cruise ship powered by LNG

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) October 6, 2021 – The cruise ship Iona, operated by P&O Cruises, has visited the Port of Barcelona and was consigned...

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