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MSC Cruises is an Italian global cruise line registered in Switzerland and based in Geneva, with operations offices in Naples, Genoa and Venice. It was founded in 1989 in Naples, Italy, as part of the Mediterranean Shipping Company.

MSC Cruises seeks stake in Trieste port

Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) October 23, 2018 – MSC Cruises is reported to be seeking an equity stake in Trieste Adriatic Marine Initiatives S.r.l....

Italy’s cruise industry expects 12 million passengers in 2019

Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) October 19, 2018 – Italy’s cruise industry expects a record year in 2019, with about 12 million passengers expected, up...

Italy should invest in port infrastructure, MSC Cruises executive chairman says

Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) October 19, 2018 – Italy’s cruise industry has very interesting growth prospects, but the country has to invest...

Fincantieri to build four luxury cruise ships for MSC Cruises

Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) October 18, 2018 – MSC Cruises and Fincantieri have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the...

MSC Cruises to bring 82 calls to Valencia ports in 2018, 2019

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) October 15, 2018 – MSC Cruises confirmed last Thursday during the ceremony of exchange of “metopes” with Autoridad...

Genoa port cruise business to gain from more passengers using the city’s Cristoforo Colombo

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) October 4, 2018 – Positive passenger numbers from Genoa’s Cristoforo Colombo can only benefit the port, with September...

Genoa was most preferred cruise port by Italians in 2018

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) September 26, 2018 – Genoa was the most preferred port by Italians for cruises in the summer of 2018, according to a survey...

Livorno port promotes cruise business at Seatrade Cruise Med event

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 20, 2018 – A delegation for Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale (AdSP – North...

Four leading cruise line companies to increase Livorno port presence

Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) September 20, 2018 – Livorno port is forecasting that around 900,000 passengers on 400 cruise ships will visit the port in...

Barcelona to become only port in Europe with terminals for Carnival, Royal Caribbean, MSC

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) September 20, 2018 – Barcelona will soon become the only port in Europe where the three largest cruise groups in the world,...

MSC Cruises to launch regular calls in Naples port in 2019

Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) September 6, 2018 – MSC Cruises has decided to include Naples port in the itinerary of the “MSC Fantasia” ship...

AdSP Palermo to present development plan

Palermo, Italy (Ports Europe) July 18, 2018 – Pasqualino Monti, president of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare di Sicilia Occidentale (AdSP...

La Spezia port approves feasibility study for cruise project

La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) June 22, 2018 – La Spezia port has given the green light to the feasibility study of a project financing proposal by Royal...

La Spezia port set for waterfront development

La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) June 19, 2018 – The President of the Liguria Region Giovanni Toti, The Mayor of La Spezia, Pierluigi Peracchini, the...

MSC Cruises new flagship to use Barcelona as home port

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 5, 2018 – MSC Cruises has officially received, its new flagship, the “MSC Seaview”, in the Fincantieri de...

Civitavecchia inaugurates new Amerigo Vespucci terminal

Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) May 24, 2018 – The Roma Cruise Terminal (RCT), designed to handle the largest cruise ships, has been inaugurated in...

MSC Cruises starts procedure for terminal construction at Barcelona port

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 9, 2018 – MSC Cruises has started the procedures necessary for the construction of a passenger terminal at the Adossat...

MSC and Royal Caribbean submit documentation for La Spezia port development

La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) April 30, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure Orientale (AdSP – Eastern Ligurian Sea Port...

28 cruise ships will pass in the ports of the Azores in last two weeks of April

Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal (PortSEurope) April 20, 2018 – In the last two weeks of April, the Azores will establish a new record of stopovers and...

MSC Cruises introduces AI aboard ships

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 30, 2018 – MSC Cruises has introduced a personal digital assistant aboard the MSC Bellissima cruise ship, a service...

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