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.
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...
Cruise activity resumes at Savona port
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) October 12, 2020 – Costa Smeralda, the flagship of the LNG-powered Costa Cruises fleet, sailed last Saturday from the port of...
DP World Limassol: Cruises can boost tourism in rural areas
Throughout the years, tourism has been a major lifeline and a leading employer for communities across Cyprus, keeping their economies afloat – September...
Yilport subject to Brindisi port rumour
Brindisi, Italy (PortSEurope) September 28, 2020 – Local sources in Puglia are reporting that Turkey’s Yilport could be interested in operating...
Press Release – Welcome to the cruise ship “World Explorer” at Thessaloniki port
The cruise ship “World Explorer” arrived at the port of Thessaloniki today, Saturday 26 of September 2020. It is the first cruise ship approaching...
Virgin Voyages signs the Genoa Blue Agreement
The cruise company Virgin Voyages today signed a voluntary “Genoa Blue Agreement” with the Port Authority of Genoa to reduce the impact of...
Cruise business returns to Piraeus port
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) September 16, 2020 – The cruise ship “Mein Schiff 6” departed from Piraeus port last night and the handling of some 700...
DP World Limassol welcomes Shipping Deputy Minister to the President at the Limassol port
Limassol, Cyprus – 14 September 2020 The Deputy Minister of Shipping, Vassilios Demetriades visited the Limassol port, where he received a tour of the...
Cruises restart – Costa Smeralda returns to Savona port
Preparations for the cruise season in the western Mediterranean are underway with the return to the Savona homeport of the Costa Smeralda. The first departure...
DP World Limassol welcomes the Ambassador of Israel
DP World Limassol welcomed the Ambassador of Israel to Cyprus to the New Passenger Terminal – September 10, 2020 The development of the maritime tourism...
New Valencia port passenger terminal will be reference point for cruise sector
Mar Chao, Commercial and Business Development Director, Port Authority of Valencia, participated in the presentation of the Environmental Practices and...
First cruise ship returns to Kuşadası since pandemic
Kuşadası, Turkey (PortSEurope) August 31, 2020 – Kuşadası port in Western Turkey has welcomed the first international cruise ship visit since the...