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.
Messina port authority looks to revive cruise ship calls
Messina, Italy (PortSEurope) January 29, 2021 – Autorità di Sistema Portuale dello Stretto (AdSP – Strait) has held talks with local...
Global Ports Holding completes sale of Port Akdeniz, Port of Adria future under consideration
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) January 27, 2021 – Global Ports Holding Plc (GPH), a global independent cruise port operator, has announced that further...
MSC Cruises announced today that MSC Grandiosa will return to sea starting on 24 January.
19/01/2021 Latest ministerial decree of the Italian government confirms that cruises can return to operation under the protection of their unique health and...
MedCruise’s Black Sea Working Group launches a joint video campaign
The Black Sea Working Group composed of Odesa, Constanta,Varna and Burgas ports was created in 2018 with the purpose to resume cruise activity in the Black...
Malagaport presents new promotial material for cruise industry
The Port of Malaga and the destination, both the capital and the province, as well as the cruise terminals today presented the new promotional material for the...
Tarragona port promotes 2021 cruise season
Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) December 2, 2020 – ‘Nothing moves without you’ is the message Tarragona port is ton use to promote its cruise...
Valenciaport takes part in the International Cruise Summit 2020
The ICS 2020 Madrid is one of the most important strategic cruise events in Europe, bringing together professionals from all sectors of the industry –...
Annual report on the performance of the cruise sector in the most difficult year presented by Risposte e Turismo
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) November 30, 2020 – The annual report on the performance of the cruise sector in the most difficult year for the entire sector...
Global Ports Holding announces Taranto port agreement
Global Ports Holding Plc (GPH), the world’s largest independent cruise port operator, is pleased to announce that Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar...
Global Ports Holding – Valencia Cruise Port agreement
València, Spain (PortSEurope) November 16, 2020 – Global Ports Holding Plc (GPH), a global independent cruise port operator, has issued a press release...
Braemar Naves Corporate Finance and V.Ships Leisure enter partnership agreement
10th November 2020 Braemar Shipping Services Plc, a leading international provider of shipbroking, financial advisory, logistics and engineering services to...
Global Ports Holding to manage Taranto port cruise operations
Taranto, Italy (PortSEurope) November 10, 2020 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ionio (AdSP – Port Authority of the Ionian Sea-Port of...
“Civitavecchia Blue Agreement” voluntary agreement is renewed
Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) November 4, 2020 – The “Civitavecchia Blue Agreement” was renewed this morning at the headquarters of the Port...
Piraeus Port Authority signs agreement with Attica region
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) November 3, 2020 – Following a meeting with the Governor of Attica Region Giorgos Patoulis, Piraeus Port Authority (PPA)...
Cruises: CLIA warns that Spain will lose its international position
The Spanish cruise market “could lose the position achieved in all these years and not recover it in a long time” in the absence of a decisive...
AIDA Cruises to temporarily suspend cruises for November
Hamburg, Germany (PortSEurope) October 30, 2020 – AIDA Cruises, part of Carnival Corporation & plc, has announced that cruises will be suspended for...
Barcelona port plans future with cruise industry interests
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) October 22, 2020 – The first deputy mayor of Barcelona City Council, Jaume Collboni, and the president of the Port, Mercè...
MSC Cruises to implement next-generation air sanitation system developed by Fincantieri for the cruise industry
Trieste, Italy and Geneva, Switzerland 21st October 2020 – Fincantieri, in close cooperation with the virology lab of the International Center for...
MSC Magnifica docks at port of Livorno
Livorno, Italy (PortSEurope) October 21, 2020 – Yesterday, the cruise ship MSC Magnifica arrived a Livorno port, the first cruise ship to dock at the...
AIDA Cruises restarts cruise service from Civitavecchia port
Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) October 19, 2020 – Last Saturday, the AIDAblu cruise ship started a seven-day trip visiting only Italian destinations...