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.
Royal Caribbean Group to open office in Limassol, Cyprus
Limassol, Cyprus (Ports Europe) January 24, 2023 – Royal Caribbean Group, a leading global cruise company, has announced plans to open an office in...
Civitavecchia port surpasses cruise passenger target in 2022
Civitavecchia, Italy (Ports Europe) January 17, 2023 – Civitavecchia port handled more cruise passengers in 2022 than forecast. “We close 2022 with...
Spezia & Carrara Cruise Terminal reports increased passenger numbers in 2022
La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) January 16, 2023 – The ports of La Spezia, Marina di Carrara and Lerici handled 551,615 passengers and 199 ship calls in...
Record number of cruise ships visit Gibraltar in 2022
Gibraltar (Ports Europe) January 16, 2023 – Gibraltar has seen 20 inaugural cruise calls in 2022, a record number beating the previous best of 19 ships in...
Turkey’s Trabzon hosts welcomes Russian cruise ship
Trabzon, Turkey (Ports Europe) January 13, 2023 – The Black Sea port of Trabzon has welcomed the cruise ship “Astoria Grande” which arrived with 502...
Piraeus port welcomes first cruise ship in new season, high expectations
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) January 10, 2023 – Piraeus Port Authority (PPA) has welcomed the Viking Sky, the first cruise ship to arrive at the port...
Turkey’s Samsun port hopes to attract cruise ships
Samsun, Turkey (Ports Europe) January 5, 2023 – The Turkish Black Sea port of Samsun port hopes to attract cruise ships and is talking to Ceynak...
Fincantieri to build new cruise ship pier in La Spezia
La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) January 3, 2023 – Fincantieri Spa will head a consortium to build new cruise ship pier in the Port of La Spezia. The...
Impressive Cruise Season in Thessaloniki in 2022
Thessaloniki, December 22, 2022 The impressive cruise season in Thessaloniki concludes today with the arrival of Viking’s vessel Viking Venus. The 2022...
Cruise ships resume services between Turkey and Libya
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) December 21, 2022 – Cruise ships have resumed services between Turkey and Libya with a vessel leaving Izmir in Turkey for...
Global Ports Holding is preferred bidder for Alicante Cruise Port concession
Alicante, Spain (PortSEurope) December 19, 2022 – Global Ports Holding Plc (GPH) has been announced as preferred bidder to operate a 15-year cruise port...
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...
Russia considers adding river-sea cruise ships
Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) November 3, 2022 – Russia is considering adding river-sea cruise ships to its fleet, reports the TASS news agency. It said...
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...