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.
Mein Schiff 2 restarts cruise activity in the Port of València
València, June 27, 2021 – Early in the morning at the North entrance of the Port of València it made its entrance, escorted and received by arcs of...
Cruise ships return to Port of Cartagena
Cartagena, June 19, 2021.- After a 15-month break, the cruise ships return to the Port of Cartagena. The ‘Mein Schiff 2’ of the German...
Port of Cádiz restarts cruise ship traffic on Monday after the pandemic stoppage
Thursday, June 17, 2021. Next Monday, June 21, the Port of Cádiz will receive the first cruise since the COVID-19 pandemic prohibited the docking of this...
Port of Malaga receives the first cruise that stops on the Peninsula after 15 months
Malaga today became the first peninsular port to call a cruise ship after a 15-month hiatus. The visit of the ship ‘Mein Schiff 2’, of the TUI...
Rome Cruise Terminal awarded a concession for the temporary cruise terminal at the port of Civitavecchia
Civitavecchia, Italy (Ports Europe) June 22, 2021 – Rome Cruise Terminal (RCT) has been awarded a concession for the temporary cruise terminal to quay 25...
Port of Civitavecchia restarts cruise ship activities
Civitavecchia, Italy (Ports Europe) June 21, 2021 – Since the Covid-19 coronavirus crisis suspended the global cruise ship industry, the port of...
Greek minister attends Celestial Cruises event
Athens, Greece (Ports Europe) June 17, 2021 – “Greece moved faster than other countries, creating a safe framework for the operation of the...
Fincantieri starts building new-concept luxury cruise ships for MSC Cruises
The first steel of “Explora I”, the first of four new-concept luxury cruise ships that Fincantieri is building for Explora Journeys, the new luxury brand...
Aurelio Martínez highlights the importance of ports and cruises for communication between countries and cultures
València, June 11, 2021 – Valenciaport has received this morning the award for the best strategy in social networks granted by the Association of...
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...