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.
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...
Piraeus port expected cruises ship revival in 2022
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) November 8, 2021 – Next year, Piraeus Port Authority (PPA) is forecasting the arrival of over 700 cruise ships, with over...
Valenciaport representative appointed vice-president of Medcruise
València, November 8, 2021 – The head of cruises of the Port Authority of Valencia (PAV), Francesca Antonelli, has been elected as the new senior...
MedCruise elects Galaport’s Figen Ayan as President
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) November 8, 2021 – The cruise industry association MedCruise has elected Figen Ayan, Chief Port Officer Galataport...
Port of Genoa representative joins Medcruise board of diretcors
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) November 8, 2021 – Cristina De Gregori has been confirmed on the Medcruise board of directors representing Autorita’ di...
MedCruise welcomes new president and new member
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) November 5, 2021 – Galataport Istanbul Port Management and Investments Inc. Deputy General Manager,...
Galataport – the unique cruise terminal in Istanbul
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) November 5, 2021 – Galataport in Istanbul, Turkey’s largest city, is the world’s first underground cruise ship port,...
Port of Lisbon voted the best cruise port in Europe for the seventh time
For the sixth consecutive year and for the seventh time since 2009, APL – Port of Lisbon Administration wins the trophy for the best cruise port in...
Turkey forecasts 1.6 million cruise ship passengers in 2022
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) November 2, 2021 – Hakan Genç, president, Turkish Port Operators Association (TÜRKLİM), has said that the...
Port Tarragona inaugurates the new Moll de Balears
The Port of Tarragona was the scene today of the inauguration of the new Moll de Balears, the new multipurpose infrastructure attached to the Llevant dike...
Port of Piraeus to host this year’s international “GreenPort Cruise & Congress”
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) October 22, 2021 – The 16th edition of the International “GreenPort Cruise & Congress” was hosted by Piraeus Port...
Global Ports Holding positions Kalundborg as an alternative to Copenhagen
Global Ports Holding Plc (GPH), the world’s largest independent cruise port operator, is pleased to announce that it has signed a 20-year agreement with...