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.
Total Malta cruise passenger traffic in Q3 2019 was 257,178, up 36.1%
Valletta, Malta (PortSEurope) November 5, 2019 – The National Statistics Office (NSO) has reported that in the period January-September 2019, total...
Koper port registers record cruise passenger numbers
Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) October 25, 2019 – By the end of this year, Koper port forecasts a total of around 115,000 passengers arriving on 66...
Cruise companies sign emissions past with La Spezia port
La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) October 23, 2019 – The international cruise ship companies, Costa Cruises (also representing AIDA Cruises), MSC Cruises...
First meeting of Cruise 2030 Call for Action initiative in Venice seeks answers
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) October 21, 2019 – The first meeting of the Cruise 2030 Call for Action initiative took place in Venice on October 18 and was...
Enedis and Marseille Fos port sign partnership for new connection of Marseille basins to public electricity network
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) October 18, 2019 – Enedis and the port of Marseille Fos have signed an agreement for a new connection of the Marseille...
Cruises companies, Marseille port and others sign “Blue Charter”
Port de Marseille – October 17, 2019 Today, on the occasion of the Blue Maritime Summit Marseille Provence – Cruise Initiatives organized in Marseille...
Venice port to host cruise event seeking a more sustainable policy for cruise ship industry in the Mediterranean
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) October 16, 2019 – On Friday this week, Venice port will host a meeting of representatives of some of the major European...
Gibraltar participated in the 55th MedCruise General Assembly in Antibes, France
Gibraltar (PortSEurope) October 13, 2019 – The the Gibraltar Port Authority and the Gibraltar Tourist Board have represented Gibraltar at the 55th...
Risposte Turismo forecasts increased cruise traffic for 2019
Rome, Italy (PortSEurope) October 10, 2019 – The number of cruise passengers in Italian ports could reach 12.09 million, a figure that would show 8.8%...
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...