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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.

Project to transform Durrës port underway

News – Project to transform Durrës port underway – July 26, 2019 Dredging works kicked off today to deepen widen the basin and the access channel...

Government set to stop large cruise ship entering Venice’s Giudecca canal

Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) July 25, 2019 – The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (MIT) has discussed the issue of cruise ships in Venice port,...

Ancona port proposes Molo Clementino for new cruise terminal

Ancona, Italy (PortSEurope) July 25, 2019 – Molo Clementino (wharf) has been proposed by Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico (AdSP –...

Malta’s total cruise passenger traffic in Q2 2019 up 44.2%

Valletta, Malta (PortSEurope) July 23, 2019 – In the second quarter of 2019, Malta received 130 cruise liner calls, an increase of 27 calls compared to...

Global Ports Holding seeks duty free and travel retail partner in four of its cruise port terminals

Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) July 18, 2019 – Following the announcement of a strategic group review on July 5 this year, Istanbul-based Global Ports...

DP World Limassol awarded as the “Most Efficient Cruise Terminal”

News – DP World Limassol awarded as the “Most Efficient Cruise Terminal – The Company was recognised at the first MedCruise Awards – July...

Global Ports Holding starts strategic review of cruise port activities

Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) July 5, 2019 – Global Ports Holding Plc (GPH), the world’s largest independent cruise port operator, has announced...

MedCruise awards Piraeus port “Best Port from the East Med Region of MedCruise”

Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) July 4, 2019 – Piraeus port has been awarded the best cruise port in the Eastern Mediterranean by MedCruise. It is the...

Las Palmas port authority cruise traffic to rise to 1.5 million next season

Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) June 24, 2019 – The total number of cruise passengers at the ports under the management of Las Palmas port authority is...

Venice port becoming increasingly expensive for large cruise vessels

Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) June 20, 2019 – Venice port becomes increasingly expensive for large cruise ships – a call in the port now costs...

Puertos del Estado and MedCruise to improve the sustainability of maritime passenger transport

Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) June 12, 2019 – The president of Puertos del Estado, Salvador de la Encina, has met with the president of MedCruise, Airam...

Málaga port’s cruise traffic keeps growing in Jan-Apr 2019

Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) June 11, 2019 – Málaga port handled a total of 115,653 cruise passengers in the first four months of...

Luxury cruise giant emits 10 times more air pollution (SOx) than all of Europe’s cars – study

Brussels, Belgium (PortSEurope) June 9, 2019 – The European Federation for Transport and Environment has produced a study which claims that luxury cruise...

Cruise traffic puts Lisbon among most polluted cities in Europe

Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) June 7, 2019 – Cruise ships emissions on the Portuguese coast were 86 times higher than the emissions of the car...

First cruise ship in four years visits Istanbul port

Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) June 7, 2019 – Istanbul received the first cruise ship in four years at the city’s Sarayburnu Port this week. The...

MedCruise signs agreement with Greek ports association

Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) June 5, 2019 – The Hellenic Port Association (ELIME) and MedCruise, the Association of Mediterranean and adjoining seas...

Balearic Islands government to divert cruises to decongest Palma

Palma de Mallorca, Spain (PortSEurope) June 4, 2019 – One of the priorities of the Balearic Islands government in the next term will be to streamline the...

Trapani port to have €15.5 million cruise terminal

Тrapani, Italy (PortSEurope) May 31, 2019 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare di Sicilia Occidentale (AdSP – Western Sicilian Sea Port Authority)...

DP World Limassol: Driving Cyprus’s growth of cruise tourism

DP World Limassol: Driving Cyprus’s growth of cruise tourism – Establishing Limassol port as a major cruise hub in the Eastern Mediterranean region...

Greece’s cruising prospects positive despite of regional geopolitical challenges the key message at the 5th Posidonia Sea Tourism forum

News Release – Greece’s cruising prospects positive despite of regional geopolitical challenges the key message at the 5th Posidonia Sea Tourism forum...

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