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.
Costa Smeralda, the green flagship of Costa Cruises, sets sail from Savona for the first trip of 2021 
Savona, Italy (Ports Europe) May 2, 2021 – With a brief ceremony in the presence of the President of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure...
Taranto Cruise Port set to start operations
Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) April 30, 2021 – An official presentation ceremony to the port community of Taranto Cruise Port, a concessionaire newly...
Port of Cartagena expects June return of cruise ships
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) April 28, 2021 – The Mediterranean port of Cartagena is preparing for the June return of cruise ship activity with...
Local government agrees framework agreement for cruise return in AndalucÃa
The Junta de AndalucÃa has approved, in the Governing Council held today, a framework agreement that may resume cruise tourism in the region – April 20,...
Port of Ravenna to issue tender for new cruise terminal
Ravenna, Italy (Ports Europe) April 18, 2021 – The Port of Ravenna plans to construct a €26 million ($31.1 million) cruise ship terminal. This will be...
Port of Civitavecchia forms new training centre
Civitavecchia, Italy (Ports Europe) April 12, 2021 – A unique international training center is being set up in Civitavecchia, aimed at maritime, logistic...
Atlantic Vigo Cruise Terminal: First terminal in Europe to obtain the biological risk control certification
During this cessation of activity due to the pandemic, which has severely affected the cruise sector, the shipping companies have taken advantage of this time...
Government agrees to relocation of large ships to Margera from Venice
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) March 29, 2021 – The Italian government has agreed to temporarily divert the traffic of large ships from Venice to Marghera...
Total to supply LNG to MSC Cruises’ liners in Marseille
Geneva, March 25, 2021Â – MSC Cruises and Total announced today a supply agreement for approximately 45,000 tons per year of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)...
Nidec ASI signs contract with Excel Sis for the creation of a shorepower project for the port of Valletta
Valletta, Malta (Ports Europe) March 25, 2021 – The local company Excel Sis has signed a €12 million contract with Nidec ASI to setup a shorepower...
Galataport plans to welcome cruise ship on April 24
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) March 22, 2021 – Galataport Istanbul’s new cruise terminal is set to start welcoming cruise ship visits from April...
Valletta COVID-19 Cruise Operations Guidelines for a Safe Continuation of Cruising approved
The Maltese Authorities give green light to COVID-19 Cruise Operational Guidelines at Valletta Cruise Port – March 18, 2021 Valletta Cruise Port together...
Malaga meets with exclusive shipping companies from the expedition sector in Seatrade Cruise Virtual
Malaga, March 10, 202.- A team from Malaga, made up of representatives of the Port Authority, Malagaport, Tourism Area of ​​the Capital City Council,...
Global Ports’ trading statement shows business hit by pandemic
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) March 14, 2021 – Last Friday, Turkey’s Global Ports Holding Ltd (GPH) reported its trading statement for 2020 which...
DP World Limassol marks four years of successful operations
More than 250 cruise ships and 400,000 passengers served since 2017 while over 3,500 commercial vessels and three million tonnes of cargo processed by the...
València loses €56 million due to the inactivity of cruise tourism
A study of the Economic Impact of the cruise sector conducted by the Valenciaport Foundation puts the expenditure of each cruise passenger who disembarks at...
Port Authority advances in the power supply project for cruise ships in the Cadiz dock
News Release – Autoridad Portuaria de la BahÃa de Cádiz (APBC – Port Authority of Cadiz) – 19 February 2021 The Bay of Cádiz Port...
Morocco Cruises Line considers Motril port service
Motril, Spain (Ports Europe) February 19, 2021 – Representative of the Morocco Cruises Line shipping company, Mohamed Laiazic El-kadiri, has met with...
Genoa port runs Covid-19 vaccination in cruise terminal
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) February 16, 2021 – On February 13, 2021, the vaccination campaign against Coronavirus started at the second terminal of the...
Andrea Annunziata sees cruise industry as vital to Naples port
Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) February 11, 2021 – Andrea Annunziata, new president of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Centro-Settentrionale...