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.
MSC Lirica will homeport in Piraeus for Summer 2022 cruise season
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) January 10, 2022 – The MSC Lirica vessel, operated by MSC Cruises, will use the Port of Piraeus as a homeport for the...
Port of Málaga reports the positive return of cruise ships in 2021
Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) January 5, 2022 – The Port of Málaga ended 2021 with a total of 114 cruise shoip visiots and 119,807 passengers. These...
Spain’s Palma port to limit cruise ship visits
Palma, Mallorca, Spain (Ports Europe) December 28, 2021 – The port of Palma, Mallorca, plans to limit the number of cruise ship visits per day to three,...
Cruise terminal of port of Crotone to be managed by Port Operation Holding srl
Crotone, Italy (PortSEurope) December 21, 2021 – The cruise terminal of the port of Crotone it will be managed by Port Operation Holding srl, a...
Ravenna Civitas Cruise Port Srl signs 33-year concession
Ravenna, Italy (PortSEurope) December 21, 2021 – Ravenna Civitas Cruise Port Srl has signed a €221 million, 33-year ($249.7 million) contract with...
Italy sets up fund to support ports’ lost revenue from tourism
Rome, Italy (PortSEurope) December 20, 2021 – The Ministry of Infrastructures and Sustainable Mobility is to establish a fund to support port cities that...
Port of Taranto joins AIVP working group
Taranto, Italy (PortSEurope) December 8, 2021 – The Port of Taranto is one of 25 international members to join a working group set up by AIVP –...
MSC Cruises returns to Turkey in 2022
Kusadasi, Turkey (PortSEurope) December 7, 2021 – Turkey will return to MSC Cruises’ Mediterranean itinerary in the summer of 2022 with Kuşadası...
Port of Trapani set to open new cruise terminal
Palermo, Sicily, Italy (PortSEurope) December 6, 2021 – This Friday, the Port of Trapani plans to inaugurate its new Passenger Cruise Terminal of the...
Port of Venice to receive government compensation for cruise ships ban
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) December 6, 2021 – The Minister of Sustainable Infrastructures and Mobility, Enrico Giovannini, in conjunction with the...
Galataport Istanbul expects 250 cruise ships for 2022.
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) November 29, 2021 – In 2022, Galataport Istanbul has reservations to receive 250 cruise ship visits in 2022, according to...
Passenger ships start return to Libya
Tripoli, Libya (PortSEurope) November 28, 2021 – Earlier this month, the new maritime terminal on Libya’s Mediterranean coastline received its...
Las Palmas expects to exceed half a million cruise passengers this winter
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) November 25, 2021 – Las Palmas is forecasting over half a million cruise ship passengers in the current...
AIVP & MedCruise held the kick-off meeting of the new Working Group on Cruises and Port Cities
AIVP-MedCruise new joint Working Group (WG) focused on sustainable port-city relationships and cruise was launched on 27 October 2021 The kick-off meeting held...
Port of Taranto inaugurates the new eastern quay of Molo San Cataldo and Calata 1
Taranto, Italy (PortSEurope) November 24, 2021 – The Port of Taranto has inaugurated the new eastern quay of Molo San Cataldo and Calata 1 in a...
MSC Crusies and Fincantieri mark float out of the line’s next flagship MSC Seascape
MSC Seascape is one of three MSC Cruises ships currently under construction, two of which will be delivered in 2022 following the two that already came into...
Heraklion Port Authority executives visit the Port of Barcelona
The President of Heraklion Port Authority Mr. Ioannis Vardavas and its CEO Mr. Minas Papadakis visited the Port of Barcelona, one of the leading Ports in...
Global Ports Holding sees revenue up over 30% in 6 months to 30 Sep 2021
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) November 14, 2021 – Global Ports Holding has published its trading statement for the six months to 30 September 2021 which...
Global Ports Holding Plc awarded preferred bidder status to operate cruise port concessions for Las Palmas Cruise Ports
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) November 11, 2021 – Global Ports Holding Plc (GPH), a global, independent cruise port operator, has announced that it has...
Turkish cruise ship industry starts recovery
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) November 8, 2021 – The Turkish cruise ship industry is slowly recovering after the Covid-19 coronavirus crisis. The latest...