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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.

Piraeus Port Authority reports on evolution of business activities in 2019

Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) September 27, 2019 – The Board of Directors of Piraeus Port Authority SA, operated by China’s COSCO Shipping Ports...

Costa Group: €12.6 billion and over 63,000 jobs generated in Europe

The figures are drawn from a study conducted by Deloitte & Touche, the University of Genoa and the University of Hamburg, which takes a snapshot of the...

Barcelona port promotes sustainability at Seatrade Europe cruise event in Hamburg

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) September 17, 2019 – Barcelona port has presented this week at the Seatrade Europe fair, Hamburg, the sustainable projects...

Civitavecchia port pleased with impact at Seatrade Europe cruise event in Hamburg

Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) September 17, 2019 – The delegation from Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Centro-Settentrionale (AdSP...

Cruise business expands in Spain

Puertos del Estado – September 10, 2019 A large representative group of the Spanish port system, headed by the president of Puertos del Estado, Salvador...

BERGÉ, the preferred cruise ship operator of Spain’s major ports

September 11, 2019 Spain is Europe’s second recipient country in terms of cruise ship passengers (3 million). Against this backdrop, the BERGÉ Cruise...

Valenciaport participates in CLIA event in Hamburg

Prior to the start of the Seatrade Europe fair, the APV has participated in the CLIA Port & Destination Summit 2019. Valenciaport is the seventh port of...

Zero smoke target for ships in Marseille, Toulon and Nice

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) September 12, 2019 – France’s Région Sud Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur is planning to invest 25% of its regional...

Malaga promotes cruise traffic in Seatrade Europe 2019

A delegation made up of representatives of the port and the destination will hold meetings with the main shipping companies in the sector – September 11,...

A Coruña port attends Seatrade Europe event in Hamburg

The Port of A Coruña goes to the Seatrade of Hamburg to advance the commercialisation of the destination and strengthen its leadership in cruise ships in the...

Bilbao port to present advantages as home port and supply of gas as fuel at Seatrade Cruise

September 11, 2019 The competitive advantages of strengthening its position as a home port, and its offer for vessels using gas as fuel will centre Autoridad...

CLIA Releases 2019 Environmental Technologies and Practices Report

Third annual report confirms the commitment and leadership of the cruise industry in environmental stewardship – September 11, 2019 The cruise industry...

Valenciaport promoted in Hamburg as a sustainable destination without congestion for cruise tourism

Valenciaport is known at the Seatrade Europe fair as a congestion-free port and accessible to all types of audiences and markets. Prior to the start of the...

Over 5,000 representatives of the cruise industry will meet in Hamburg in September

Thousands of cruise industry experts and leaders will meet again in Hamburg at the tenth Seatrade Europe Cruise & River Cruise Convention in September...

Koper port predicts record cruise ship year

Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) August 29, 2019 – Koper port is predicting its most successful cruise season this year. It estimates that at year-end,...

Global Ports Holding announces record interim cruise results

Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) August 27, 2019 – Global Ports Holding Plc (GPH), a leading independent cruise port operator, has announced its...

Barcelona cruises: balancing business opportunities & environmental concerns

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) August 13, 2019 – Last week, the Italian government decided to limit cruise ships from passing by Giudecca and San Marco,...

Venice port bans some cruise ships from historic centre

Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) August 9, 2019 – Danilo Toninelli, the minister of infrastructure and transport, has said that starting now, the number of...

Global Ports Holding produces trading update

Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) August 6, 2019 – Istanbul-based Global Ports Holding (GPH), a leading cruise port operator, has published a half year...

Venice calls European port cities to jointly tackle cruise ship problems

Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) August 2, 2019 – The president of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Settentrionale (AdSP – Northern...

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