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.
MedCruise awards Valenciaport for the management of COVID-19 in social networks
València, June 9, 2021 – The Association of Mediterranean Cruise Ports (MedCruise) has awarded the Port Authority of Valencia (PAV) for its...
SAXO Bank Chief Economist optimistic for recovery in Malta’s Trade, Transport and Tourism
Steen Jakobsen, the Chief Investment Officer and Chief Economist of SAXO Bank expressed himself more than optimistic about Malta’s prospects for economic...
French ports ready to welcome cruise ships from June 30, Costa and MSC sailing from Marseille July 4
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) June 8, 2021 – Secretary of State for Tourism Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne has said that France will resume cruise ship visits...
Grouping headed by Rina Consulting won the tender for the design of the terminal in Marghera
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) June 2, 2021 – The consortium headed by the company Rina Consulting of Genoa has won the tender for the design of the...
Port of Barcelona awards MSC the concession to build and operate a cruise terminal
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) June 1, 2021 – The Port of Barcelona has approved granting MSC Cruises Barcelona Terminal a concession to build and...
Valencia welcomes cruises again
València, May 31, 2021 – On June 27, the ship Mein Schiff 2 of the TUI Cruises company will make a stopover at the Port of València. It will be the...
Reopening of ports for cruises in spain is an opportunity for Madeira
International cruise ships can dock in Spanish ports from June 7, the Spanish government announced Saturday, lifting restrictions imposed at the start of the...
MSC Cruises has applied for a 25-year cruise port concession at the Adriatic port of Ancona
Ancona, Italy (Ports Europe) May 28, 2021 – MSC Cruises, one of the world’s leading shipping companies, has applied for a 25-year cruise port...
AIDA Cruises chooses Malaga as the port of call in its national itinerary
Aida Cruises has announced the start of a new national itinerary departing from Palma de Mallorca, in which it has chosen Malaga as its port of call for the...
Port of Cartagena welcomes cruise ships in July
The Port of Cartagena has closed eight new calls as of July through the AIDA shipping company – May 25, 2021 President of the APC, Yolanda Muñoz, said...
Spanish ports ready to resume cruise traffic with full safety guarantees
Spain’s public port system, made up of 46 ports managed by 28 Port Authorities and coordinated by Puertos del Estado, is represented at the International...
Port of Barcelona prepares to resume cruise ship activity
The Port of Barcelona will intensify work with cruise companies in the coming days to resume activity in the coming weeks, once Procicat has approved the...
Port of Piraeus welcomed the first cruise ship of the season
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) May 18, 2021 – Piraeus Port Authority SA (PPA) has announced the arrival of Mein Schiff 5, the first cruise ship in...
Cruise ships return to Port of Lisbon
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) May 17, 2021 – The Port of Lisbon Administration (APL – Administração do Porto de Lisboa) has said that cruise...
Port of Thessaloniki to join forum to resume cruise industry
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) May 11, 2021 – Thessaloniki Port Authority (ThPA) will join the online version of the Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum...
Trade unions discuss Palermo port issues with AdSP manager
Palermo, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) May 10, 2021 – Am eeting between trade union organizations and the president of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del...
Sunrise signs cruise agreement with Andulasian ports association
The Public Ports Agency of Andalusia (APPA) has signed an agreement to join Suncruise Andalusia as a partner, with the aim of collaborating in the promotion of...
Vilagarcía Port Authority launches strategy aimed at attracting small and medium-sized cruise ships
The Vilagarcía Port Authority has launched a strategy aimed at attracting small and medium-sized cruise ships, which can make a stopover in Vilagarcía and...
Taranto Cruise Port welcomes its first cruise ship
Today, Taranto Cruise Port has welcomed its first cruise ship, MSC Seaside. This call marks Taranto Cruise Port’s first partial turnaround operation and call...
Port of Cartagena plans to resume cruise ship activity
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) May 4, 2021 – The local authorities have given the Port Authority of Cartagena the green light for the reactivation of...