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.
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...
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...